Photo Credit - Kiel Fire Department
A cornfield near Kiel caught fire yesterday afternoon (November 16th).
According to Kyle Preissner, the Public Information Officer with the Kiel Fire Department, crews were sent to the field at the intersection of County Road X and Wilke Lake Road in the Town of Schleswig just after noon.
About three acres of field were engulfed in flames, which had also spread to a wooded area.
Several other area fire departments were called in to assist due to the wind speeds and expanding size of the fire.
It took about 20 minutes for the fire teams to quell the flames, but it did end up destroying four acres of field and part of that wooded area.
The cost of that damage is not clear, and Kiel Fire reported the cause to have been from farming equipment.
No injuries were reported.
