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The Humboldt Volunteer Fire Department kept busy over the weekend, with three grass fires at two locations Friday and Saturday.
The department was dispatched shortly after 10 a.m. Friday to a grass fire about seven miles south of Humboldt. Fire Chief Rex Kapel says a controlled burn got out of control and charred approximately 20 acres of pasture.
Humboldt fire fighters were called to the same location at around 4:00 Friday afternoon, after Kapel says someone relit the controlled burn and it again got out of control.
Humboldt volunteer fire fighters were called out again Saturday afternoon, to lend mutual aid for a fire south of Dawson.
Kapel says a fire in a brush pile south of the state line got out of control in the dry and windy conditions and consumed 200 acres.
Personnel from the Humboldt, Dawson, Sabetha, and Bern Fire Departments were called to help put out that fire.
The Falls City Rural Fire Department was called Saturday night to a fire along the railroad tracks near Preston. Rural Fire Chief Ken Arnold says there was no significant damage as a result of the fire, which he says was along the railroad right-of-way. Arnold says it’s not known what ignited the fire.
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