A heavy blanket of snow lay across the fields in rural Iola Wednesday morning. Not long after 7 a.m. David Greathouse emerged from his isolated farmhouse southwest of town to see two columns of smoke billowing out of his nearby garage.
Earlier that morning, Greathouse, in an effort to heat the outbuilding, fed a small amount of hedge into a small wood burning stove. He had a row of chainsaws laid out in the garage, which he planned to sharpen in preparation for a day of cutting timber with a few friends.
“I came out and the smoke was already rolling,” said Greathouse,…
Contractor’s ‘livelihood’ destroyed in garage fire
