CRIME scene investigators are probing a barn fire that caused hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage with police also checking three other blazes.
Farmer Brian Lock told how his new £150,000 combine harvester, a tractor, trailer, plough and £10,500 worth of barley straw went up in flames at Lower Burton near Dorchester and praised a former worker for saving one of his tractors from the burning barn.
Residents who were evacuated included a two-week-old baby and other children with one woman being carried over a fence by her neighbour and pushed up a grass hill in her wheelchair.
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