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Saturday, May 25, 2013
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Dry-grass fire Saturday
by Gregory R. Norfleet · News · August 03, 2012
Possibly a still-smoldering cigarette thrown into severely dry grass caused a fire outside of McDonald’s and Kum & Go Saturday afternoon.
West Branch Police Chief Mike Horihan took pictures while the West Branch Fire Department spent about five minutes putting out the flames along the fence on Parkside.
“It was really, really dry there,” Horihan said. “The fire destroyed about half the fence and wrecked the bushes.”
No one was injured and none of the cars in the parking lot were damaged, he said.
Fire Chief Kevin Stoolman and Horihan agreed that it was probably accidental, caused by someone throwing out a cigarette out of a moving car. The fire call came in at 4:58 p.m. Saturday.
“It was going pretty good — bushes were flaming when we got there,” Stoolman said, with mulch and dry needles feeding the fire.
The hot temperatures and drought conditions have given the WBFD a few extra fires along the interstate and a couple extra trash fires than normal, though Stoolman said that because there has been very little wind, the fires do not spread quickly. |
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