McCord’s Crossroads Responds to Alexis Fire

From McCord’s Crossroads Fire Dept:

Alexis-Units from McCord’s Crossroads Volunteer Fire Department were dispatched to a wildfire with structures endangered in the Alexis community Wednesday afternoon after a local farmer saw smoke coming from his neighbor’s farm on County Road 86. While en route units learned that a farm tractor was also involved and that the fire was within feet of a shed filled with hay.

Engine 55, responded from station #2 and arrived in about 11 minutes, discovering about an acre of woods and field burning aggressively with a tractor and several implements already fully engulfed in flames.

A defensive fire attack was immediately deployed, with the primary focus being on preventing additional fire spread to surrounding ex

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