HANLEY FALLS — A total of 10 area fire departments were called out to a large fire at a grain elevator in Hanley Falls early Friday morning. While there were no injuries reported in the fire, large embers blew into part of town, the Yellow Medicine County Sheriff’s Office said.

Damage to the elevator was extensive. Firefighters were still at the scene at 8:30 a.m., spraying water from ladder trucks onto the elevator.

At about 4:30 a.m., a BNSF railroad crew reported the fire, at the Farmers Cooperative Elevator in Hanley Falls, the Sheriff’s Office said. The fire was at FCE’s northern location in Hanley Falls, which is on the west edge of town.

Around the time the fire was reported, Hanley Falls residents said there were embers being blown into town, and toward houses near the elevator. Firefighters monitored the situation, and helped residents evacuate, the Sheriff’s Office said.

Fire departments from Granite Falls, Wood Lake, Echo, Clarkfield, St. Leo, Porter, Canby, Cottonwood, Marshall and Montevideo all responded at the scene, as well as the Granite Falls and Cottonwood Ambulance, the Yellow Medicine County Sheriff’s Office, the Minnesota Department of Transportation and the Minnesota State Patrol.