KEMP, Texas — A tractor was utilized in firefighters’ efforts to save hundreds of hay bales and a large barn in an hours-long blaze on Friday afternoon.
KEMP, Texas — A tractor was utilized in firefighters’ efforts to save hundreds of hay bales and a large barn in an hours-long blaze on Friday afternoon.
At 12:43 p.m., the Kemp Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched on a report of several hay bales on fire in the 18000 block of County Road 4056.
Mutual aid was requested from fire departments in Kaufman, Mabank, and Scurry.
Kaufman County Fire Marshal Randy Richards says approximately 450 hay bales were stacked near a large metal barn and several were on fire when firefighters arrived on scene.
Firefighters escorted, with water lines, a tractor which was removing hay bales from the large stack, Richards told inForney.com. The efforts and "a lot of hard work," he says, saved approximately 300 of the hay bales.
Firefighters were also able to stop the fire from burning the barn. Richards says heat from the fire had already begun warping the metal on the barn.
The property owners were burning trash when nearby grass ignited and later caught the hay bales on fire, according to Richards.
It wasn't until after 5 p.m. that all fire departments cleared the scene.