Update…fire destroys barn east of Ypsilanti Mon pm

Jamestown  (CSi) The Jamestown Rural Fire Department was called just after 4-p.m. Monday to a barn fire,  about 2.5 miles east of Ypsilanti.

The barn was declared a total loss and was destroyed before 12 firefighters and five units arrived, on the scene..

JRFD Chief Ben Maulding says heat lamps was the likely cause of  the  fire .

The farm’s owner, Dustin Lein, was not home when the fire started.