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One Silo Lost, Two Saved in Houlton Fire

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An ATV rider spotted smoke from machinery at the Nu-Seed Company in Houlton on August 19 and called firefighters, who arrived in five minutes and contained a seed dryer fire to one silo, saving the other two on the property and preventing 65,000+ bushels of grain from being lost.

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