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High winds hamper firefighters

Grand Prairie firefighters had to use shovels and brooms to contain a 2 alarm grass fire in the 1700 block of East Marshall Tuesday afternoon. I took firefighters almost an hour to extinguish the windswept blaze. ©Bob Fitch - 2008/All rights reserved

It took Grand Prairie firefighters almost an hour to put out a large grass fire in the 1700 block of East Marshall near the Lockheed Martin facility Tuesday around 12:30 p.m.

The high winds Tuesday hampered the twenty-four firefighters it took to put out the fire. 

Grand Prairie firefighters are shrouded in smoke as they fight to contain a grass fire in the 1700 block of East Marshall. It took firefighters about an hour to put out the 2 larm fire that was fanned by Tuesday afternoon's high winds. ©Bob Fitch - 2008/All rights reserved

Posted by Editor on January 29, 2008 02:39 PM |


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