Salem Firemen battled two wind-whipped fires Saturday afternoon, one burning about 30 acres and the other three.
The first fire was on the Josh Tate property on Mills Cart Road near the Hoots Chapel Road intersection. A fence row was being burned out when the fire jumped to an adjacent bean stubble field. The fire burned 20 acres on one side of Mills Cart Road and 10 acres on the other side. The blaze never threatened any structures and remained in the cut bean fields. Salem Firemen received mutual aid from the Odin Fire Protection District. The fire call came in at 1:42 Saturday afternoon, with firemen on the scene for an hour and a half.
The second fire was on Telford Lane southwest of Salem which started when a Citation Oil power line fell into the grass. The fire spread to a three-acre cut bean field. Firemen received the call at five Saturday afternoon.
Salem Firemen look over the fire damage from a field fire on Telford Road started by a downed power line.
Firemen from Salem and Odin work to extinguish a field fire off Mills Cart Road Saturday afternoon.
