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The highway department was asked to lend a front-end loader and trucks to haul sand. Residents of houses downwind from the fire — “whichever way the wind was blowing” — were evacuated. “Some were advised to leave but wouldn’t go,” the Sperryville fire chief noted.
Emergency personnel at the junction with Route 211 stopped traffic from proceeding down the lane.
The co-op’s assistant manager was called and asked to open the farm supply store to provide firefighters with rolls of duct tape. According to Mr. Leake, the tape was used to stop infiltration of smoke and fumes through cracks in the firemen’s breathing apparatus,
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