Harvester Fire
Peach Ridge Avenue Northwest, Kent City
Timeline
- Sparta Fire dispatched to a harvester fire near 10500 block of Peach Ridge Avenue Northwest, just west of Peach Ridge in a field; harvester fully engulfed, half an acre starting to burn
- Responder offers to go to the call; the combine belongs to a Kent City firefighter
- Fire location refined: Peach Ridge Avenue Northwest between 12 Mile and 13 Mile roads, closer to 13 Mile
- Sparta 10 en route from Peach Ridge; Alpine tender also responding
- Fire is a half mile off the road in a field; may need one or two brush trucks
- Alpine Fire paged for mutual aid to Sparta, requesting a tender and a brush truck
- Responder at Station 3 told to take the tender
- Large column of smoke visible; command requesting an additional water tender
- Command reports a combine well involved in a partial cornfield; approximately an acre
- Combine fully involved; brush fire about an acre; Ottawa County Chester Township fire tender and brush truck en route, told to go to 41 FD North
- Additional firefighter being sent to staff an engine for the one-acre brush fire
- Main fire knocked down; incoming units slowing response
- Alpine Medic 1 and Brush 3 on scene
- Command terminated; all units cleared from the scene
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