Smoke and flames pour from a building fire at the Burtch Seed Company elevator and silo in Tama Saturday evening about 7 p.m. The flames and smoke could be seen for miles.

ROCKFORD - Fire destroyed a landmark grain elevator along Tama Road Saturday night with flames visible as far away as Ohio City, Mendon and St. Marys. "The thing was fully engulfed before we arrived," longtime Rockford Fire Chi . . .