Field fire on Union Flat

Fire crews responded to a field fire at the Dick McNeilly place above Union Flat Road north of Highway 26, August 2. Approximately 15 acres of grain were razed by the fire which is believed to have started off a pickup truck. Fire crews reported the field was really roaring when they arrived on the scene, but an adjoining field of summer fallow stopped it. The alarm was logged just before 6 p.m. Crews from Diamond, Colfax, Albion, Steptoe and Dusty responded....