Ga. child sets fire to barn

Published 10:00 am Monday, December 13, 2010

Firefighters in Augusta say a 6-year-old boy accidentally started a fire that burned down a large barn on his family’s property.

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No one was injured in the Saturday blaze, which also consumed a large playhouse that was being built as a Christmas present.

Cary Russell, a Richmond County fire battalion chief, says the boy unintentionally set fire to hay inside the 60-foot barn. The flames spread to a boat, a four-wheeler and a tractor inside the barn and burned for nearly three hours.