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| More than 30 tractors and other vehicles worth about £500,000 have been destroyed in a fire at an agricultural machinery company in County Down. | |
| Firefighters were called to the scene on the Ballygowan Road in Comber at 2300 GMT on Friday. | |
| A fire service spokesman said the blaze may have been started deliberately. | |
| Fire crews were able to stop the blaze spreading to other buildings, including the owners' house. Tyres and machines were still smouldering on Saturday. | |
| Neil McGrath from the fire service said one of the owners noticed the fire when they looked out the window. | Neil McGrath from the fire service said one of the owners noticed the fire when they looked out the window. |
| "The owners are very distraught about what happened," he said. | "The owners are very distraught about what happened," he said. |
| "They were in bed last night and at half ten one of them got up, for whatever reason, and basically when they were pottering around, happened to look out the window and found that their property was on fire." | "They were in bed last night and at half ten one of them got up, for whatever reason, and basically when they were pottering around, happened to look out the window and found that their property was on fire." |