Northwest Iowa — A number of fires were extinguished over the Easter weekend in northwest Iowa.
According to Sanborn Fire Chief Randy Lyman, Sanborn firefighters went in two different directions when they got to the station on Saturday, about 5:50 p.m. He says the first call was to a tractor fire at 350th and Roosevelt Avenue, which is about two miles south of the southeast corner of Sanborn. Just three minutes later, a call came in for a grass fire at 5581 320th Street, about a mile and a half west of Sanborn on Highway 18. Lyman says the tractor fire started when the operator was spreading manure and he says there was an oil leak or something similar under the steering compartment, which started the fire. He says the tractor was totaled, but there were no injuries reported. Lyman tells us the grass fire started when the fenceline was being burned. But the fire was approaching the Canadian National railroad tracks, so the fire department was called, and Lyman says they extinguished the fire around the tracks.
Another fire was reported near Ireton. This one was on Friday at 4:25 p.m. Fire Chief Richard Steckelberg says it was just into Plymouth County. The fire was at K22 and C12, one mile south of the Sioux County line. Steckelberg tells us it was a ditch fire that burned a little way into the field. The cause is undetermined. He says it burned about an eighth of a mile of ditch, and they were able to extinguish it in about half an hour.
