Team firefighting effort stops blaze west of Havre at 120 acres

Kremlin Rural Fire Department spearheaded an all-out response late Sunday evening that quickly shut down a fire that burned 120 acres of cropland with both stubble and standing crop on it.

The fire call came in about 9 p.m., Kremlin Fire Chief Kody Peterson said, and they had trucks, tankers and volunteers coming in immediately from neighboring fire districts, businesses and farms.

“It was a pretty huge team event, and we got it whipped pretty quickly,” Peterson said, adding that the fire was completely out in about 2 1/2 hours.

The fire started in a field about 7 miles west of Havr...