A heat lamp used to warm a chicken coop is responsible for starting a fire inside a cannabis drying facility on Hueners Lane on Wednesday afternoon. According to the Medford Rural Fire District, the initial call came in around 4:30 p.m. It was followed by multiple calls reporting a structure had caught fire.
One local resident, Marleigh Poteet, says she and her friends saw it all. "We saw, like, darker-colored smoke, and then when we went on this pathway, we saw, like, all the flames," Poteet explained.
MFD Fire Chief Eric Thompson said when firefighters arrived, there was a heavy column of smoke. He also said the attic space of the building was engulfed in flames, and parts of the roof were already coming down.
Fire officials say the fire moved up an unprotected wall from a heat lamp used for chicks. The attic then caught on fire.
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