A farmer doing fall harvest noticed flames and smoke from the rear of his combine while harvesting his crop on October 17, 2015. The Richland Center Fire Department was sent to Section 24 of Rockbridge Township on Hustlers Ridge Drive to extinguish the flames. The farmer was able to drive the combine out of the un-harvested area of the field to the edge of the road where firefighters extinguished the fire. The combine drive unit suffered severe damage in the incident although the grain head was saved and remounted on another unit. No injuries were reported.
Combine Fire – Rockbridge Township
