Area fire departments have handled a number of grass and woods fires.
Sandoval Firemen received mutual aid assistance from three other departments in fighting a Sunday afternoon fire in the 700 block of Community Beach Road on the Jack Wheat property. Fire Chief Chad Parson says the fire started as a trash fire that spread to some cattails and then into an abandoned oil tank battery before being blown into a wooded area. Odin Firemen were called for a brush truck and water. The Centralia Fire Protection District and the Centralia City Fire Department were called to bring UTV vehicles to be able to travel off the road. The fire covered two to three acres before being brought under control.
Jefferson Fire handled a five-acre pasture fire Monday off Stratford Road south of Robin Road in rural Texico. The cause of the fire is unknown. Kell Firemen were called for mutual aid assistance. The fire call came in at 11:30 Monday morning with firemen on the scene for about two and a half hours.
Salem Firemen handled two fires Monday afternoon. The first fire on the Pat Worden property on Country Lane burned about a half acre of grass. It started from a brush fire that got out of hand. The second fire was a woods fire on Shuler Road near the Townhouse Road intersection north of Salem on the Steven Geyer property. It covered about three acres before being put out. Firemen were on the scene for about an hour.
