Nov. 25--The Jamestown Rural Fire Department responding to three simultaneous fires that burned an estimated 1,000 acres Wednesday night, according to Rick Woehl, rural fire chief.
The first call came in around 9:20 p.m. and was for a pasture fire located near Country Club Road and 89th Avenue Southeast between the railroad tracks and the James River.
About a minute later, another call came in for another field fire, this one located about 2 1/2 miles straight south of Ypsilanti, N.D.
On the way to that fire, crews noticed yet another fire about two miles west from the second fire.
"It's happened before," Wohel said of three fires at the same time. "It makes things interesting when that happens."
There were eight firefighters at the first call, which was the biggest. Eight more went to the second fire in Ypsilanti and two broke off from that eight to the third fire.
The fires near Ypsilanti were out by 11 p.m. and those firefighters rejoined the crew at the first fire until about 1 a.m.
No injuries were reported, but the causes remain unknown.
"The cause of these (fires) is being investigated," Woehl said.
