Rock Rapids, Iowa — A tractor was destroyed in a fire on Saturday, January 15, 2022, near Rock Rapids.
According to Rock Rapids Fire Chief Ed Reck, about 2:30 p.m., the Rock Rapids Fire Department was called to the report of a tractor on fire near 140th Street and Garfield Avenue, about a mile north and three miles west of Rock Rapids.
The chief says the fire department saw the tractor fully involved when they arrived. He says the driver told them he had been driving down the road with a round bale on the front of the tractor, which was pulling a bale processor, when he noticed an issue and then shortly noticed flames from under the hood. He tells them that very quickly the whole tractor was on fire. Reck says firefighters used water and foam to fight the fire.
He says no injuries were reported.
He says the cause of the fire appeared to be electrical in nature, but is undetermined.
Chief Reck reports that the tractor was totaled in the blaze, but the bale in the front and the bale processor in the back were undamaged.
He says the firefighters who responded were on the scene about 20 minutes.
