UPPER WEST FORK FIREMEN SAVE WALKER RD. GREENHOUSE - Firemen Respond To Brush Calls

(03/09/2009)

Grass fire burned up to greenhouse, which was spared Chief Perkins said high heat and a March breeze caused the grass fire to spread Upper West Fork firemen responded to a grass fire on Walker Road at 12:43 p.m. Saturday. The fire threatened a greenhouse belonging to Justin Wizard. Chief Randy Perkins said the fire destroyed a small outbuilding and a woodpile and burned "right up against the greenhouse." Firemen quickly brought the blaze under control. The fire burned about two acres near Wizard's greenhouse and residence. The Upper West Fork VFD answered a call earlier Saturday at 10:18 a.m. on Walnut Road, where a pile of building materials caught on fire next to a dwelling. "The owner almost had the fire out when we arrived," said Perkins. UWF fireman mans turrent gun The Grantsville VFD was summoned with departments from Ritchie and Wirt counties Sunday afternoon to a brush fire at Brohard, which reportedly burned about 7-8 acres. The local department returned to station, as the fire was brought under control. Grantsville firemen responded to a brush fire on White Pine Rd. at 10 p.m. Sunday near Frederick's Trailer Park, a fire fanned by high winds. Firemen still on scene at midnight.

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