50-acre fire quickly contained near Ephrata
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Grant County Fire District 5 firefighters respond to a past brush fire. They and other departments responded to a fire Saturday morning near Ephrata that was estimated at about 50 acres.
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EPHRATA - A fire broke out Saturday morning between Moses Lake and Ephrata but was quickly knocked down, according to Grant County Fire District 5 Battalion Commander Travis Svilar.
“About 8:20 this morning, we were dispatched to a brush fire in the 700 block of Road 9 Northwest,” Svilar said Saturday afternoon. “Units arrived on scene and we had about a 50-acre wildland fire, heavy sage, threatening some residential structures.”
GCFD 5 requested mutual aid from GCFD 13, which responded with brush trucks and water tenders.
The fire was contained in about an hour, and crews moved into mop-up, Svilar said. The cause of the blaze was unknown, he said.
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