After 122 years of volunteer service on the force, Sun Prairie?s fire department could soon see salaried firefighters.

Lt. John Austad is the president of the Sun Prairie Volunteer Fire Department Inc. (SPVFD Inc.), the group that represents the 45 volunteers and four full-time paid employees that work at the city's stations.

Austad said on May 7, the department's leadership was asked to attend a meeting with city officials. Austad said at that meeting, the city told SPVFD Inc. a committee had chosen to move in a new direction.

City council members voted to apply for a Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant from FEMA. At that point, Austad said the city discontinued negotiations of their contracts.

The Sun Prairie girls and Middleton boys won WIAA regional track championships at the Division One regional at Middleton Monday night.

Madison Memorial's Jester Weah continued his dominance of the 100 meter dash winning in a time of 10.8 seconds. Weah also won the 200 meter dash in 22.17 seconds.

Memorial's Daurice Fountain won two hurdles races.� Fountain ran 14.94 in the 110 hurdles and won the 300 meter hurdles in 39.78 seconds.

Other notable performances included Monona Grove's Gabbi Beauvais who won the 100 meter dash (12.62) and the 200 meter dash (25.24).

Madison West's Wilson Hacker edged LaFollette's Chander Diffee in the boys 1600 meter run. Hacker's 4:25.60 was less than a second better than Diffee's 4:26.56. DeForest's Ryan Spahn and Monona Grove's Terry McMillan also broke the 4:27 mark.

Tonight's top qualifiers advance to the sectional completion Thursday.

Final Girls Standings:

1. Sun Prairie��� 152.5

The collapse of a barn during Tuesday night storms killed at least 15 cows, according to the owner of a farm on Canal Road east of Marshall.

Ed Herman told News 3 half of the barn collapsed or was blown away when storms rolled through the area around 8:30 p.m.

"Where it fell down there were animals trapped under it and we lifted them up and got them out," Herman said. "The dead animals ... there were cattle running everywhere. It was devastating."

The barn was a unique mono-slope barn, one of few of its kind in the state, according to Herman. The barn was 3 years old.

"It was supposed to be engineered to withstand the snow load and the straight-line winds," Herman said. "[The wind] had to be unbelievably strong. It was engineered and designed to withstand that and apparently it didn't."

Herman said at least 15 feeder cattle were killed and more might need to be euthanized.