Two-alarm fire at dairy farm in Washougal

Emergency crews responded to a two-alarm fire early Monday morning at Stauffer’s Dairy Farm in Washougal.

East County Fire and Rescue was dispatched to 541 S.E. Blair Road at approximately 12:30 a.m., and arrived to find a loafing shed and milking shed fully involved with fire, said ECFR Public Information Officer Rick Knapp Monday morning. The approximately 60 by 80 foot loafing shed, where cows are collected prior to milking, was the largest of the two structures destroyed.