Corn bale intentionally set on fire near highway 78, Battle Lake MN
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a corn bale fire near highway 78 south of Battle Lake. The fire was intentionally set by the landowner for burning purposes. The fire department canceled their response after confirming this information.
Audio|Source: Wadena,Otter Tail, Hubbard, and Todd County Public Safety
02:42
Transcript:
00:00
Hunter Tell the Bad Lake Fire Department, can you respond to a corn bail on fire? We're on 78 south of town a couple two, three miles east side of the road.
00:10
Looks like there was a tractor nearby, but a heavily corn stock field that looked like it was getting into, incompetent to anybody around.
00:17
So approaching a tractor,
00:19
a couple miles south on the east side of the road.
00:21
I'm at 1070.
00:23
K-150, Ottertail.
00:26
K-150.
00:28
Did you get any reports from their DNR, U.S.
00:31
Fish and Wildlife that they'd be burning units in Western Township?
00:41
Okay, 150, nothing.
00:43
I just plugged into our map, too.
00:44
I don't see anything.
00:45
Activated on that.
00:50
Or I'm waiting for information back, but MOA is out.
00:55
I'll advise.
00:58
Tempor, thank you.
01:00
K-150 Ottertill.
01:03
Good.
01:09
Received info, private parties,
01:12
attending, burning some ditches.
01:14
Everything seems decent.
01:17
Tell me.
01:19
Hello. All right, tell.
01:23
Go on. Okay.
01:26
Thank Paul.
01:27
Thank you. Thank you.
01:29
That's funny.
01:34
So you guys, I don't know if we can assist out and unlocked or not.
01:37
Lake Region Clinic parties blocked his keys and he's blocking the loading and unloading, kind of creating our method.
01:44
He called AAA, they didn't have any TA for him, but...
01:56
Valley Fire Daughter Tail Fireman.
01:58
Yeah,
02:01
go ahead.
02:05
Mark just spoke landowner, (name withheld).
02:08
He intentionally started that bail.
02:10
He wants to burn it.
02:11
Can you send him out a cancel page? He is on site.
02:14
Yeah, hold on.
02:27
720 Furn and South East Monaga.
02:30
So, Battle Lake Fire, you can cancel the bail fire on 78 south atone.
02:35
You can cancel them.
02:36
Contact's been made with owner there in the pitchfront.
02:39
Time at 1022 and 1022.
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MN-78, Battle Lake, MN
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