Garnett man hospitalized after fire destroyed barn

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March 21, 2012 - 12:00 AM

GARNETT — A weekend fire on Ron Ratliff’s farm west of Garnett left the 51-year-old farmer and sale barn owner hospitalized with more than a third of his body covered in burns.

The Ottawa Herald reported earlier this week that at about 1 a.m. Sunday Ratliff and his wife were awakened at their home — 23474 Northwest 1700 Road — by a series of explosions that occurred after a hay barn on the farm had been engulfed in flames. 

Ratliff ran into the barn in an attempt to salvage equipment but the heat from the blaze was so intense, melting the barn’s metal beams, it caused burns on his hands and arms above the elbows, on his legs below the knees and on his back.

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