Fast attacks limit damage in trio of weekend blazes

Jennifer Larsen | Last updated Aug 18, 2011 12:0pm0

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HEADED TO HELP. A fire truck throws up a modest cloud of dust when compared to the smoke plume rising from a stubble field fire late Friday afternoon near Thiel Road and the Dirks family farm.

Wheat, stubble and rangeland were the only casualties of three different fires last weekend in the Ritzville area.

Firefighters spent between two and three hours Sunday afternoon on a blaze that started near milepost 214 on Interstate 90.

Seven trucks responded to the 12:33 p.m. fire that torched 25 acres to the northeast of the freeway. Adams County Fire Protection District No. 1 Chief Scott Kembel said it is unknown what caused the fire.

Friday crews battled a pair of blazes.

Nine trucks and tankers from ACFPD 1 as well as mutual aid responded to a fire near Thiel and Griffith Roads north of...