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Strong winds and warm temperatures challenged the Pense District Fire Department crew after a grass fire on Wednesday afternoon.
Long black strips of land stretched from the Canadian Pacific Kansas City tracks to Highway 1, west of Belle Plaine.
The fire department arrived at the scene around 2 p.m.
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While Gerald Hammerling was driving from Moose Jaw to Regina when he saw the flames.
“I saw a number of lines of grass burning,” he described. “Large swaths of areas that had already burned, possibly some structures, a lot of thick smoke.”
Hammerling said he had to slow down to 20 kilometres an hour while on the highway because visibility was so poor.
Bands of blackened fields burned next to the CPKC railroad tracks. (Gillian Massie/980 CJME)
It’s concerning to see grass fires this early, he said.
The fire department is still investigating the cause of the flames.
980 CJME has reached out to CPKC for comment.
A Pense District Fire Department truck near blackened fields burned near Belle Plaine. (Gillian Massie/980 CJME)
