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Illinois Firefighter Responds To Tough Call - His Own Barn
Aug. 10, 2004
Donna hugged her husband Firefighter David Bertels tightly, as they watched their barn filled with farm equipment burn to the ground.
The Telegraph/JOHN BADMAN
Firefighters use a hose line on a burning barn full of farm equipment and hay on the Bertels farm Monday morning as sunlight, refracting through spray from another fire hose, creates a rainbow behind the firefighters.
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DORSEY -- Donna Bertels hugged her husband, David, tightly as they watched their barn filled with farm equipment burn to the ground Monday morning.
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