. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. CAUSE OF FIRE WHICH CLAIMS SCREENHOUSE IS UNKNOWN by J. B. Presler At approximately 5 on the thickly fogged morning of May 21, this Spring, a fire started in the screenhouse located on Mr. George Briggs' Indian Pond cranberry prop- erty in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The fire was spotted by Peter Stearns, who lives in a stone house, only several hundred yards from the site of the then flaming screen- house. Though the local fire depart- ment arrived promptly, there was little that could be done to salvage the building or anything
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. CAUSE OF FIRE WHICH CLAIMS SCREENHOUSE IS UNKNOWN by J. B. Presler At approximately 5 on the thickly fogged morning of May 21, this Spring, a fire started in the screenhouse located on Mr. George Briggs' Indian Pond cranberry prop- erty in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The fire was spotted by Peter Stearns, who lives in a stone house, only several hundred yards from the site of the then flaming screen- house. Though the local fire depart- ment arrived promptly, there was little that could be done to salvage the building or anything housed inside it. Thus, a great deal of screening equipment was totally lost. In addition to these, numerous tools and a couple of trucks were also burned. Said Mr. Briggs, "An accumulation of sixty years worth of stuff was ; Mr. Briggs was not the only individual to suffer. Mr. William B. Stearns, Jr., another Plymouth cranberry grower, lost a small tractor, some tools and a large amount of sprinkler parts which he had stored in the building. Most of the loss was covered by the owners' insurance arrange- \ ments, but the inconvenience caused was great, and some mone- tary loss was inevitable. The cause of the fire remains undiscovered. The area seems sus- ceptible to fires, however, as can be deduced from its history. In 1900 a large woods fire raged over the same area. In 1957, a huge fire which spread throughout the south- ern part of Plymouth county's forested area, touched this property also. And, as recently as four years ago, the house directly adjacent to the site of the screenhouse was completely leveled in a fire which I. was caused by some disorder in the kitchen range. Luckily, the screenhouse was separated from the surrounding woods by a wide margin of grass. This, the fact that the night was damp, and the absence of any high winds, confined the fire to the one building. The highly inflammable nature of the contents of the building, such as wooden b
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