[picture courtesy of koin.com]

(St. Paul, OR)  --  An investigation is ongoing into a fire that burned hundreds of bales of hay outside St. Paul.  Firefighters responded to a rural property off River Road Northeast for the fire in a barn yesterday.  Fire officials say the barn was holding 14-hundred bales of hay weighing one-thousand pounds each when the fire broke out.  It's not yet clear how many bales were destroyed.  Investigators are looking into how the fire started.