Farmers help battle grass fire west of Regina

GRAND COULEE – Farmers around Grand Coulee, Sask. banded together to douse a grass fire that threatened their fields Monday afternoon.

Officials believe the fire was caused by a train around 1 p.m. Farmers and fire officials from both Grand Coulee and Regina were able to contain the blaze along with railway workers. By 4 p.m. there were a few areas that were still smouldering.

Grand Coulee’s fire chief Jim Pratt called it “an unusual blaze” that luckily happened in late spring while the fields are saturated.

Grand Coulee is about 17 km west of Regina.