The Glasgow Fire District was called out to a pair of fires in area fields Saturday, Oct. 4, both involving farm machinery.

Firefighters first responded to a bean field fire around 3:30 p.m. just across the river from Glasgow in Saline County. The department says a combine was running hot, resulting in about two acres of harvested bean stubble catching fire. The wind pushed the blaze on the grass-covered river levee.

As crews were beginning to tackle this fire, dispatchers learned of a second fire in Chariton County. The department’s chief arrived at the second fire just north of Glasgow and observed a plume of black and grey smoke, indicating that a combine was on fire. Mutual aid was called in from Salisbury and Keytesville to help put out the fire. As fire crews began to flank the flames to keep the fire from advancing north, the landowner used a second combine to cut beans in front of the fire line, followed by neighbors with disc-tillers to create a fire break, stopping the blaze from advancing further.

While the combine in Chariton County was a loss, no injuries were reported as a result of either blaze.