Riley County firefighters were called out the second time in less than a week to fight a brush fire in the northern part of the county.
It took three hours to contain the fire, with a construction company having a cargo trailer destroyed, and other structures were threatened.
“It really is dry out there and we have not had that much moisture,” Doug Messer, assistant fire chief, says. “We get these little showers and people think that’s adequate rainfall. That is just not the case.”
Messer adds Thursday was a high category of risk day for such fires, as fires will start with very little help and are very difficult to contain.
“We’re moving into that time when people think they should be burning,” Messer says. “We’re just going to ask that people be very careful out there.”
The fire Thursday occurred on Falcon Road in northern Riley county when a construction crew was cutting rebar in the tall grass.
The property owner is Robert Cowan, with the construction company involved identified as DeVader Concrete Construction out of Maple Hill.
