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Wind rekindles fire, spreads to destroy multiple vehicles

By Greg Bebermeyer

03/08/2021

(KNZA)--The wind rekindle a field fire just south of Hiawatha Sunday afternoon, which spread to destroy more than twenty vehicles and damage several other vehicles at a local auto repair business.

Hiawatha Fire Chief Gene Atland said firefighters were dispatched to the fire in the 22-hundred block of south U.S. 73 Highway around 3:00..

Atland said a field south of the Grease Rack had been the location of an owner controlled burn on Saturday, with no issues from the original burn.

The wind kicked back up Sunday and rekinded the fire. Atland said the fire destroyed twenty-two vehicles, damaged thirteen other vehicles, along with equipment parked on the Grease Rack property.

Fortunately, Atland said the Grease Rack building and no homes in the area were damaged.

The Robinson and Horton Fire Departments assisted in battling the blaze.

It took firefighters about an hour and a half to extinguish the fire.

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