The Superior Express -

Monday afternoon, members of the Superior Volunteer Fire Department responded to a grass fire five miles north and two miles west of Superior along U.S. Highway 136 west.

The department sent five trucks: two grass rigs, a pumper truck, a tanker and the rescue truck with a bumper sprayer. Seventeen men responded to the call.

The fire rapidly consumed four acres of grassland on the north side of the highway. Farmers doing some repair work sparked the fire.

"They were shocked at how fast it traveled," Scott Nondorf, fire chief said.

White, dense smoke boiled high into the sky and although the fir...