Farm equipment catches fire in two counties Thursday

A couple pieces of expensive farm equipment were lost to fire yesterday which in turn also caused two area vegetation fires.

The first happened in Fond du Lac County when at 1:21pm, a call from a land owner at W13628 Hwy 44 stated that his corn bailer had caught fire and that the fire was spreading into a 20 acre field. Alto and Brandon-Fairwater Fire Departments were dispatched along with a deputy from the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office. The land owner stated that the bailer was a total loss resulting in about $9,000
in damages and around five acres of field had burned.

Less than 10 minutes after that call the Adell and Cascade fire departments responded to a combine on fire in a field on County W near Silver Creek Cascade Road in Sheboygan County. When units arrived, the combine was fully engulfed and the fire also had spread to the field.