A huge fire in Granby has destroyed a packing, sorting, grading and storage building at the Sorbello and Sons onion farm.
Morris Sorbello said he was called at about 4:45 p.m. Tuesday about the fire. Sorbello is an Oswego County legislator representing the Granby area and had been in Oswego for a legislature committee meeting.
"The most important thing is no one was hurt," he said Wednesday morning.
Sorbello said he lost most of this year's onion crop that was being stored in the building -- about 115,000 50-pound units. The building, which is actually three buildings hooked together by tunnels, also is a loss.
He said firefighters still are at the scene Wednesday morning and the fire is still smoldering.
He also lost equipment in the building used for the sorting and grading of onions. He is insured.
An exact cause of the fire has not been determined, but Sorbello said it may have been electrical. He said his son had been in the building at about 4 p.m. and had hooked up an electrical charger to a machine and that may have malfunctioned.
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