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Raging
field fires caused crop destruction in and around Logan County. Fields
that were green less than three weeks ago are now acting like tinder
this year. Numerous dry, standing corn and bean fields have caught
fire before harvest. Hot, sunny, dry, breezy days have turned fields
to golden, dry-as-paper fire hazards.
Multiple
fire departments responded to four fires in the area: two in Mount
Pulaski, one in San Jose and another in Elkhart. The fires affected
multiple property owners at each of the fires.
Huge
clouds of smoke could be seen on the horizon throughout the day
Tuesday. Smoke could be seen and smelled at I-55 north of Lincoln.
Ash by the handfuls was reported all along Route 10 in town in
Lincoln.
Firefighters
who came in off the hot fields in the late afternoon were parched
and blackened by smoke and dirt from the fire just west of the
Broadwell-Elkhart area.
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