(Area News) – Multiple area fire departments in southwest/western Iowa were kept busy battling both combine and field fires, Saturday. At least two combines caught fire in Cass County. One was in the area of 740th and Boston Road, and was contained by crews from Anita, Wiota, Adair and Exira.

Emergency personnel responded to a field/ crop fire north of Clarinda on M-63.

Photo via Red Oak Fire Chief John Bruce

At around 4-p.m., Saturday, firefighters from New Market, Clarinda, Bedford and Villisca worked a large field fire north of New Market, in Taylor County, near 200th/ Badger Avenue. Local farmers also provided their tractors and disk implements to help stop the spread of the fire.

Another fire was reported in Mills County. No one was said to have been injured during any of those and other incidents in southwest Iowa.

Dry field conditions (low humidity and high winds) again today (Sunday) prompted the National Weather Service to issue an ELEVATED FIRE DANGER Special Weather Statement through at least 4-p.m.