Jamestown, (CSi) – The Jamestown Rural Fire Department was called to a shop fire in rural southeast Jamestown about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, two miles east of Hillcrest Golf Course.The Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office reports a shop on the property was fully engulfed in flames when the units arrived.The shop’s owner Jim Madsen says no one was home when the fire started.

Otter Tail Power Co. was on scene to cut off electricity to the property, and Montana-Dakota Utilities was there to cut off the gas.

Rural Fire Chief Rick Woehl says firefighters were on the scene for about two and a half hours.

The shop was destroyed.

The cause of the fire is under investigation by the Jamestown Rural Fire Department, with the estimated damage to the shop at about $50,000, not including the value of the contents.

The Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office, North Dakota Highway Patrol and Jamestown Police Department were also at the scene.

Then 10 minutes after firefighters arrived at the shop fire scene, they were called to another fire, a small grass fire on Interstate 94, near the Spiritwood exit.

The Rural Fire Department sent two pickups to the second scene, and the grass fire was extinguished in about 10 minutes.