Grassland fires can affect you too! More up to date fire watch later!
By:Marisa Urbano, Staff Member
PRATHERSVILLE, PA - The spell of the hot, dry weather has held the area in its grasp for the last few weeks, taking its toll on grasslands and firefighters.
On Saturday, the fire protection agencies from across the area responded to sixteen 16 calls in the wake of 15-mph and 25-mph winds and a high temperature of 99 degrees.
At the largest, a 25-acre grass fire on Peabody Road broke out north of Prathersville and west of Route 19. County fire Chief Debra Schuster stated that paramedics treated at least five of 35 firefighters for heat exhaustion on site.
Three more of the heavily-clad firefighters were hospitalized for heat exhaustion, and two of them were flown to Springfield Hospital by helicopter. All were treated for about one hour and then released.
The blaze at Peabody Road burned out of control for an hour before it was contained . Dennis Sapp, fire captain of Station No. 1, said the inferno probably was started by a trash fire. The blaze endangered some nearby farmland and the barn as well but was extinguished before anything was burned down.
- For more information on grassland fires, click the link attached: http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/biogeography/biomes_grassland.html
- For a video of grassland fires, click the link attached: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPdH5gl1fTo&feature=related
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