Firefighters on Saturday afternoon extinguished a blaze at the Robbins Lumber sawmill and lumber yard in Searsmont.
The fire started in, and was contained to, a control room for the company’s dry kiln, which is used to dry lumber produced at the sawmill on the property.
“We don’t know what happened,” Catherine Robbins-Halsted, a co-owner of the family owned business said. “Our boiler operators spotted that there was a fire and they notified us.”
Robbins-Halsted said no one was in the upper-level control room at the time, and no one was injured in the fire, which did not spread to nearby lumber storage sheds.
“The fire department did an excellent response and took care of it,” she said.
