Fire at the Farm

My parents live on a farm. The only thing that they raise is cattle. There are no chickens, pigs, goats, horses, or sheep, just cows. Right now things are very dry due to the lack of rain. There are burn bans everywhere with signs displayed throughout the area so that no one can say they didn't know there was a burn ban.

Yesterday my daughter and son in law went to the farm to see my parents and ride their four wheeler. As they pulled in a fire had just started on some adjacent land. The fire had started on someone's tractor-possible a bird nest that had been built on the underside of the tractor had ignited while the tractor was being used.

The fire spread quickly and soon jumped to my parent's land. Fire trucks from every close small town came to put the fire out. My father as well as men from the adjoining land plowed the ground to hopefully create a fire break. The good news is that the only fatality was a truck. A man that had been working had left his semi truck and flat bed trailer in the field. He had been called by several people but didn't come to move it. The tires melted from the heat. No homes or cattle were lost but my father will now be replacing 45 fence posts that were burned by the fire.

Liz