WINNIPEG — Emergency crews responded to a grass fire near Winnipeg’s west perimeter shortly after 6 p.m. Monday.
The fire started along the the railroad tracks near Community Road and spread west to the Perimeter Highway.
Railroad ties stacked up along the side of the tracks for construction were catching and spreading the flames. “That’s been our biggest headache,” Ian Campbell, Acting Platoon Chief told Global News at the scene.
Thick smoke was being spread across the area by winds coming out of the West north-west gusting to 55 km/h, making the flames hard to handle.
Campbell believes a grass fire farther west down the tracks near Headingley, Manitoba were sparked from the same source and spread by the high winds. Fire crews had the blaze under control by around 7:30 p.m.
“Just a case of turning over those ties and making sure we don’t have anything left smoldering behind those or underneath them,” Campbell said.
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