Cornfield fire reduces road visibility in Rock County, Rock County MN


A cornfield fire broke out near 300 Street and Cheney Avenue in Rock County, Minnesota. The fire created heavy smoke that reduced visibility on local roads. Multiple fire departments were called to assist, and deputies were asked to help manage traffic for safety due to poor visibility.
Audio|Source: Rock County Sheriff, Fire, EMS and PW
03:55
Transcript:
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If there's a deputy in our area, could they sit at the intersection of near 91 in Cheney just so the smoke doesn't, it's hard to see going down the road here.
00:18
Close to a county car fire is requesting. Someone sit at near 391. It's hard to see due to all the smoke.
00:31
3104. It's going to be a while.
00:33
I'm just leaving that 1052.
00:37
Mark.
00:39
The only sales are fired.
00:49
Okay,
00:51
Chief, they'll fire.
00:55
Yeah, Tim.
00:59
Go ahead.
01:04
Here.
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Here,
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you know from the south.
01:12
Sam.
01:20
I think the floor.
01:27
12121.
01:30
12121.
01:33
I have a dog bite happened at near Smith Avenue currently in the ER
01:43
1040.1040. Chief Alder is fire?
01:52
Fire a lot, go ahead.
01:55
How many people do we got in route?
02:10
You guys cut out, do we have both rash rigs in or out?
02:16
This bumper one, that's grass rig one,
02:20
and a taker.
02:21
These are not also.
02:30
Ten far. I got two discs hopefully coming.
02:35
I'm thinking about getting Adrian just to be on the safe side since it's so windy.
02:59
Please move over to mv2.
03:06
Go ahead, fire 4.
03:12
Fire 4, go ahead.
03:15
Fire's on C. The fire's on C.
03:21
Can we get Adrian in route two to cover from the north?
03:37
Paging and Adrian Fire for Mutual Aid[1], near 300 Street and Cheney Avenue for cornfield on fire.
03:43
Paging, Adrian Fire for Mutual Aid[1], near 300 Street and Cheney Avenue for cornfield on fire.
03:49
Paging and Adrian Fire for Mutual Aid[1], near 300 Street and Cheney Avenue for cornfield on fire. Please use MB2.
Police codes explained
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[1]
Mutual Aid: Assistance request/response to or from another agency or jurisdiction
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