08/29/2005: Grass Fire
Saturday afternoon, around 4:30 PM, we were paged for a grass fire about 12 miles outside of Miller. I wasn't as quick to get to the fire hall as I usually am, and I still was the second person there. I knew right away we were going to be short on firefighters.
When we arrived at the fire it was burning beneath a tree strip, out into a pasture, and into a corn field. The corn wasn't burning, but the dried leaves and stalks on the ground from previous years were burning. Luckily, the fire wasn't burning with much intensity. We didn't have any trouble getting a handle on it.
In the fenced in pasture that was burning, there was a very upset horse. The horse wasn't really in any danger since the fire wasn't burning very fast, but try telling that to a horse.
By the time we had it extinguished, we ended up with plenty of firefighters. They just weren't all able to respond immediately. We had three brush trucks and three pumpers.
Unfortunately, to put out the fire in the corn field, we had to drive out into the field and mash down a bunch of the corn.
The cause of the fire was a controlled burn (rubbish fire) that got out of control.
Comments
We kick some ass on this one before it got away!
Posted by: Triple D at September 5, 2005 03:29 PM
