Friday, August 14, 2009

This Afternoon's Fire

We were resting in Auntie Violet after our return from Spokane when Forry noticed smoke on the horizon up the coulee. It looked like it was quite a ways away.

A bit later Barb came to the door and said the fire was on the edge of the field that the Hutterites were harvesting and had spread into our CRP (Conservation Reserve Program) field next to them. It sounds like they were going around the harvested edge of the field with a chopper that had a hot bearing and started the fire.

Forry watched the activity for a while with binoculars then we drove around and up to take a look. Fire trucks were there from Lind, Ritzville and Odessa. The fire had burned from the edge of the field up the coulee to the next road where it was finally stopped. Fortunately it did not get into the field of unharvested grain. It burned about 10 acres of the CRP ground.

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