Weekend Hay Fire Consumes 20 Semi Loads of Tires
KSCB News - July 16, 2013 1:57 pm
Seward County Fire Department
515 N. Washington, Suite 105
Liberal, KS 67901
Phone: 620.626.3267
On behalf of Seward County Fire Department we would like to say Thank You to the following for the assistance of staff, equipment, food, donations and support. The event was a large hay and tire fire located in the 14000 block of Road 4 that occurred on Friday July 12th at 1119 hours – this fire consumed some 5000 plus bales and 20 semi loads of tires valued at greater than $300,000.00 – the last unit cleared scene on Sunday July 14th at 1453 hours and the scene was released back to the owners – there were still some hot spots that they were going to continue to watch and they would let us know if they needed any further assistance.
Liberal Fire Department
Southwest Incident Management Team
Red Cross
Hooker Fire
Seward County Sheriff’s Office
Stevens County Fire Department
Turpin Fire Department
Beaver County Emergency Management and Water District
Kansas Highway Patrol
Grant County Fire Department
Seward County Road and Bridge
Heifer Source
Max Jantz Excavating
Vickie Rice and Melissa Helsel
Liberal/Seward County Emergency Communications
Satanta Fire Department
Meade County Fire Department (Meade and Plains)
Tyrone Fire Department
Wal-Mart
Dillons
Hutch’s C Store
Little Ceasars Pizza
All of the family members of the 77 personnel that were involved to bring this incident to a close
Sincerely,
Michael Rice, Fire Chief
Greg Standard, Assistant Chief
Seward County Fire Department
Seward County Fire Board