Fighting the fire...

Rookie firefighter Jared Hart from the Mountain Home Fire Department extinguishes smoldering hay removed from a barn behind a home at 2114 Summer Wind Dr., as crews continued to extinguish the fire inside the structure Jan. 6.

Firefighters linked the fire to spontaneous combustion, which destroyed bales of hay inside the horse barn but was contained before the fire had a chance to cause any significant damage to the structure.