Wilder, ID Hop Farm Fire Causes $2 Million Loss
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Some really bad news for the hop harvest a hop farm in Wilder, ID suffered a $2-million loss during a dryer fire on Sunday night. Details from the Idaho Statesman:
Wilder fire officials are still trying to figure out what cased a drier unit in a hop barn to catch fire Sunday night but estimated the loss of hop crop and equipment to be about $2 million.
The shed had multiple drier units and one of those caught fire around 5:15 p.m. Sunday. By the time fire crews arrived, the building was engulfed in flames, so crews had to go into defensive mode to keep the blaze from spreading to nearby structures, Wilder Fire Chief Doug Amick said Monday.
The hop shed was located on Peckham Road. Amick said several hundred bails of hops were lost in the blaze, along with custom hop drying equipment.
Amick declined to identify the farmer who lost the building and the crops. He also wasn’t sure which brewing company had a contract for the hops.
Update: I have had reports that the farm was Obendorf as well as two readers now reporting it was Jackson Hop farm.
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