Fire departments responded to a rapidly spreading brush fire along US 33-119 at Letherbark at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. Firemen were on scene for about one and one-half hours.
The fire started in the ditch-line and rapidly went up a steep hillside fanned by the wind, with a mobile home nearby.
The Arnoldsburg, Upper West Fork and Spencer-Roane VFDs responded to the incident, which burned over a few acres.
A WV Forrester also responded.
Spring fire season starts Friday. | 
