Posted on 10/20/2020 4:01:50 PM PDT by Rebelbase
In the early morning hours of Thursday, Oct. 15th, several local fire departments responded to a fire in rural Clay County, NE.
Jonathan Rempel said he was getting his two children ready for school on Thursday when he received a phone call from the Sutton Volunteer Fire Department.
“They said Your harvest equipment is on fire,” Rempel recalled. “All of it.”
According to the Nebraska State Fire Marshal’s office, the fire destroyed a combine, two trucks and trailers filled with grain, a tractor, and a grain cart.
Rempel described the location of the fire as a ‘very rural area’, two miles off the two-lane highway.
Photographs from the fire have been shared widely on social media, suggesting the fire was politically driven and arson.
Rempel avoided making the political connection in his Facebook post, sharing the news of the fire. He did confirm that two flags in support of President Donald Trump were on his combine.
Flags and signs in support of President Donald Trump are not uncommon in Nebraska this year. Numerous farmers have used their harvest equipment as rolling billboards this election year.
The Fire Marshal’s office told the Rural Radio Network that the investigation into the fire is ongoing.
“Words can’t do justice to explain both the emotional lows, and support that we have experienced just since early this morning,” Rempel wrote on Facebook. “Things can definitely be replaced….people can’t.”
The following statement was posted by Rempel on Facebook:
No one wants to read about sad stories or pain on Facebook, but we believe we need to share this to the larger community of friends that we have both near and far.
Today was a hard day. I received a call this morning at 7 am while helping get the kids ready for school. The call was from the Sutton volunteer fire department. They were calling to tell me that all of my harvest equipment at the field was on fire and they were putting it out. We can not say thank you enough to the Sutton and Clay Center VFD’s who responded to the early call.
Apparently, sometime early this morning our combine and corn head, tractor, and two semi’s all caught fire at about the same time while being parked at a safe distance from each other. We are devastated and crushed by the enormous loss we face from this fire, but at the same time are incredibly blessed to be from rural America, where the people are the best. Both of our phones have blown up with a huge out-pouring of support from friends, family, business partners, and strangers. People offering their physical help, their operational help, and offers of food and meals in this time of tragedy. These people are already stretched thin, are stressed and tired, but are taking time to reach out, and offer help and aid in a time of need. We are so incredibly blessed by everyone!!!
Words can’t do justice to explain both the emotional lows, and support that we have experienced just since early this morning. We are thankful no one was injured during the incident. Things can definitely be replaced….people can’t.
Again, we want to extend our sincere appreciation to everyone who has reached out to us today. Love, The Rempels.
“Has anyone started a Go Fund Me account for him???”
I was wondering the same thing.
That’s just pure evil. I guess some local egg-packer or chicken plucker thinks the farmer is a big capitalist. Wouldn’t surprise me if it were one of his disgruntled field hands, or even a relative.
It would have to be a hefty Go Fund account. Just the combine replacement could run half a million
More shots fired in the uncivil war.
Time to find and answer the cowards.
-But how did they lose on beans?-
Up till a couple of weeks ago, before the Chinese started direct buying of beans again, they were $8. Other countries were buying our beans and drop shipping them to China.
The rural people I know fully expect to deal with the leftists. I wouldn’t bet against them.
China is buying record amounts of soybeans, corn, and now wheat, from the U.S. Even though this year's corn crop was a bumper crop, corn prices have been rising for the last 2 months as China increases its purchases of U.S. corn even with the Tariffs.
Now wheat is starting to take off. Many farmers are probably going to start storing their extra product in anticipation of even higher prices over the next 6-12 months.
“It would have to be a hefty Go Fund account.”
Definitely. Farm equipment is crazy expensive.
Here is the Go Fund Me page for this incident.
Michigan farmers are NOT team blue, but probably depends on the area of the state. The Thumb farmers are extremely Red.
We are not quite rural; small town in farm country. We are PLANNING on “them” bringing trouble.
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