ROME -- A fire has decimated an upstate New York barn, striking more than 30 years after a blaze destroyed another barn on the same spot and killed two children.
Edward Tyler remembers the first time his family's barn in northern Rome burned down in the 1970s, with two local children caught in the flames.
Late Friday night, he and his wife thought they smelled someone having a cookout. But later they realized the barn that had been rebuilt on the same spot was on fire.
They rushed to let their cows out of the barn, but three died. It took two hours for firefighters to bring the blaze under control.
By noon Saturday, firefighters were still hosing off smoking spots that had been hidden beneath the structure's collapsed roof.
