Cornfield fire reaches Republican River trees

Thursday, March 18, 2004

"We had to fight it the hard way .... string hose and fight it with shovels," Red Willow Western Fire Chief Bill Elliott said about the fire that roared through trees and underbrush along the Republican River near the Harry Strunk Memorial Rest Area, east of McCook, late Wednesday morning.

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