By Dewey Terrill
JC Post
High winds helped lead to multiple grass fires for the Geary County fire Department Saturday and Sunday. There were not any injuries reported.
According to Geary County Rural Fire Chief Garry Berges at 3:18 p.m. Sunday firefighters were sent to an area near Old Highway 40 and Britt Road west of Junction City. A fire that had rekindled from an earlier blaze and involved the burning of grass and trees. Units from Junction City Fire Department, Abilene, Herington, Grandview Plaza and Enterprise helped put out that fire. That blaze had rekindled from a Saturday burn which was actually a rekindle of the controlled burn of a wood pile from one month ago.
Sunday at 3:18 p.m. there was a fire reported near U.S. 77 and K-57 near an Evergy transmission line involving a power pole and grass fire that jumped across a road and burned some cedar trees.
On Saturday there was a grass fire in the Schmedemann Road and Lower McDowell Creek Road area where a grass fire rekindled. A house also caught fire. Berges estimated damage at $10,000 to the house where Dave Sampson lived. There were not any injuries.
At 2:45 p.m. Sunday Geary County also sent two units to stand by in Ogden for Riley County Fire District one. There was a major grass fire occurring in northern Riley County.