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Last updated on Thursday, October 6, 2011
(IRELAND) - Ireland Volunteer Fire Deparment Chief Stan Seifert said firefighters responded to a field and combine in the 4400 block of West 500 North at the Harris Brothers Farm.
Firefighters arrived and found about 1/10th of an acre of corn husks and stalks on fire. The fire started from sparks from the front of a combine that developed a mechanical problem.
The driver of the combine tried to steer the machine out into the road where it could not start a fire, but a small fire had already started.
Another area farmer brought a tractor with a disk and tilled up the affected area to keep the fire from spreading.
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