Combine catches fire
IVESDALE – It took firefighters from six different fire departments to put out a field fire in rural Ivesdale on Tuesday afternoon.
Ivesdale Fire Chief Jim Brewer said firefighters were called to a fire along County Road 300N at about 175E at 1:45 p.m. Tuesday.
Brewer said a combine had caught on fire, causing fire to spread through standing corn.
Tom Kirwan said he was picking corn around 1:30 when all the monitors in the cab of his combine came on and he smelled smoke. Kirwan said he got out of the combine and saw fire underneath and tried to extinguish it with a hand fire extinguisher, but the fire quickly spread with about 100 gallons of fuel onboard the combine.
As winds caused the fire to spread and set a tractor on fire, firefighters from Bement, Atwood, Sadorus, Seymour and Pesotum also helped.
According to Brewer, 20 acres of fields were on fire at one point. The firefighters had the fire under control by 2:30 p.m. and left at 3 p.m.
Nobody was injured, Brewer said.
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