Watertown Fire Rescue responds to pair of grass fires
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June 7, 2021
Mike Tanner
WATERTOWN, S.D.–Watertown Fire Rescue responded to a pair of grass fires on Friday.
The first call came a little after 3:30 Friday afternoon of a grass fire on Highway 20 near the National Guard Readiness Center.
Crews arrived to find several small fires burning in a ditch along the highway.
A few minutes later, crews were called to a grass fire burning in a shelter belt on 454th Avenue.
Crews began to extinguish the second fire when the land owner arrived and requested that they watch the fire and make it into a controlled burn.
