—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, March 5, 1977
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Neighbors pitch in after bam fire
By JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Reporter
AIRVILLE, Pa.—Every
farmer worries about it. To
most, it never happens. To a
small percentage, it does.
The Ellis Crowl family,
Airville R 2, has joined that
tragic percentage.
Twelve-year-old Gary
Crowl was home from school
on February 14. About 2:30
p.m., he glanced toward the
bam and saw the telltale
wisps of smoke. Alerting his
mother, the two quickly
chased heifers away from
the bam area.
The phone lines were
already burned off by the
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time Joyce Crowl tried to
call the fire department. She
raced to a neighbor’s house
to use their phone. Ellis was
on business at Joyce’s
parents’ home, and drove
the two miles to his property
he recalled later, “doing 90
miles an hour.”
But by the time he drove in
the lane, the bam was
engulfed in flames. He tried
several times to chase out
four remaining hogs which
were determined not to leave
the pens, and at the last
moment, he finally suc
ceeded.
The bam had been built in
1935; and, at 120 by 100 ft., it
constraints on agriculture
and more on legislative
developments. Conferees
would also like general
sessions of the outlook
conferences to assess the
impact of domestic and
world developments on
individual commodity
markets.
These and other comments
were contained in an
evaluation of the Outlook
Conference by people who
attended the session last
November.
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Maurice Stump
was one of the largest in
southern York County. In
less than an hour after the
first smoke had been seen, it
lay in a collapsed pile of
smouldering hay and broken
black timbers.
Before sunset, neighbors,
unasked, began appearing.
Some came to chase the 60
loose heifers back into
makeshift pens in the
Growl’s recently completed
new dairy bam. Others
loaded homeless hogs onto
trucks and took them to
auction. And down the road
came the first of the seven
loads of hay shared by
neighbors in the first week.
“Whenever anyone needs
help, the Growl’s are the first
to be there,” explained
Kathy King, Delta R 2. “We
all wanted to be a part of
helping them after the fire.“
Then, a week later,
neighbors turned out in full
force for a massive clean-up
effort.
“I just don’t know how
many are here,” offered
Growl, emotion telling in his
voice. “There’s no way we
can name them all or thank
them as we’d like.” An
unofficial count by a
member of the kitchen crew
at lunch tallied 28 men, 13
women, and a few
youngsters accompanying
their parents. Neighborhood
farm women had piled the
table full three times to feed
the soot-blackened shifts of
workers.
The volunteers brought
with them a full line of heavy
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cleanup assembly-line ef
ficient. Nine large dump
trucks roared over the lane,
carrying away loads of the
debris. Two bulldozers
knocked down scorched and
sagging walls, scooping the
ashes into the waiting line of
trucks.
By late afternoon, all that
remained was the smoke
stained foundation, a
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and clusters of the
remaining workers com
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chores. But as remnants of
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the old bam disappeared,
the determination of the
Crowl family to continue on
their dairying operation
grew.
Hay for the cattle remains
a concern. The Growl's had
been buying hay all winter
and saving the more than 200
tons in the barn for Spring
feed when hay prices would
rise. Every bale put up last
summer was lost. Only a
very tiny amount of three
year-old hay in a distant
storage bam is left.
But perhaps the saddest
aftermath of the tragedy is
the loss of seven registered
ass
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Holstein calves. The calves,
July and August bom, were
being groomed as potential
4-H and FFA project calves
for the three Growl sons,
Leon, 17, Glenn 15, and Gary.
How the calves will be
replaced, or if project
replacements can even be
found, is the major concern
for the young men.
A farmer works hand in
hand with fate and faith.
Fate has dealt a harsh blow
to the Growl family. Faith,
bolstered by the kindnesses
of neighbors and friends, will
see them through to rebuild
anew.
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