A old duffer once told me that in the early days the old horse farmers were totaly against trains with all the smoke and fire. He stated that they were blamed for barn fires ten miles away. Those folks did not approve of change as we often do now with many new concepts being forced on us.
In NE Iowa trains did indeed start many fires in dry years, and fire departments did not have a chance to even get to the timber fires for a few hrs. Cell phones, and fire trucks have improved this over the years.
On that same note, did you ever wonder why all farm buildings were kinda space apart? They could loose one building perhaps, and still survive. They often had four legged lawn mowers to keep the grass short, less dry grass to burn and spread the flames. The farm animals would pasture directly around the house.
A good ol boy said his dad always insisted that it was stupid to not have your barn on the opposite side of the creek from the house. His refferance was that a house had a fire potetial with a chimney fire. The old sod houses used to prop a pole up under a chimney (made from sod also) so if there was a chimney fire they could kick the pole out from under the chimney and fight the chimney fire on the ground, and save the house.
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