Fires Plague Blue Hill area

A fire at the Keith Waechter farm was the latest of a number of fires in the Blue Hill area.  Waechter was harvesting when his combine caught on fire.  He was able to drive the big machine to the edge of the field, thus preventing the loss of crops but the combine was totally destroyed. Waechter was not hurt.   The Blue Hill fire department responded to the blaze and extinguished the blaze   Waechter's farm is located about 7 miles south and west of Blue Hill. 
Saturday October 1 fire destroyed a hog shed on the Alber farm south of Rosemont.  A number of pigs who were housed in the shed were lost.  Three firemen with the Blue Hill fire department responded to the call for help containing the fire as the wind came up and began to blow the embers around. 
Some girls from Red Cloud were checking out a minimun maintance road west of the Gerald Alber farm south and east of Blue Hill when their brakes locked up.  The heat from the locked up breaks caused a fire which totally destoryed the car.   The fire then spread to some CRP grass.  The girls called the Red Cloud Fire department who arrived and put out the fire before too much of hte CRP was destoryed.  The girls were not injured.