Wind-driven fire

Friday, June 22, 2012
Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Daily Gazette

Nic Donvito, left, and Matt Thayer of the Red Willow Western Rural Fire Department try to stop flames low-crawling through wheat and stubble in a field about 10 miles south/southwest of McCook, Nebraska, at noon Friday. Streams of water bent in 30-40 mile-an-hour winds, and the flames jumped a county road to smolder in the fringes of a corn field. Beaver Valley's fire department provided equipment and manpower and a neighbor plowed up singed stubble to help get the fire under control. The RWWRFD fire chief has imposed a burn ban.

Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Daily Gazette
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  • what started it?

    -- Posted by bbens on Fri, Jun 22, 2012, at 9:08 PM
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