Kell Firemen say three acres burned early Tuesday night when a small trash fire got out of control at 7879 Exchange Road in rural Texico.
Assistant Chief Jason Franke says the trash fire spread to a small field and was moving towards a tree line and woods when they arrived on the scene.
Once on the scene, firemen brought the fire under control before it entered a bean stubble field that was just cut prior to the fire.
Firefighters received the call at 6:39 Tuesday night and remained on the scene for around two hours putting out a fire in dead trees and stumps in hopes the fire would not flare up Wednesday due to forecast strong winds.
Firefighters would like to remind everyone to call 911 in the event of an emergency and not call firefighters or the fire department directly as in the case of most volunteer departments, the station is unmanned most of the time.
