Someone who spotted smoke from the top of Quaker Ridge called in the fire at about 11 a.m., fire Chief Glenn Holt said.
Nobody was at the nearby home at the time.
Firefighters battled the blaze but were hampered by freezing temperatures and no available water source. They pumped water from a portable pool set up at the scene that had been filled with trucked-in water. Departments from Monmouth, Wales, Greene and Turner aided local firefighting crews.
The building — measuring about 24 feet by 24 feet — contained a tractor and attachments and a snowblower, along with about 16,000 board feet of lumber, which acted as a ready fuel source, Holt said. No estimate was available for the dollar amount of the insured loss.
Investigators from the Maine Office of the State Fire Marshal were on scene Tuesday afternoon but hadn’t established a cause or area of origin by 3 p.m., when firefighters cleared the scene, Holt said.
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- Smoke from a structure fire Tuesday morning on Jennings Road in Leeds fills the sky.
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- Leeds firefighters battle a structure fire Tuesday morning on Jennings Road in Leeds.
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- A storage shed on Jennings Road in Leeds was destroyed by fire Tuesday morning.
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