Volunteer firefighters save two homes from grass fireUPDATED 6:04 PM CST Jan 30, 2014Video Transcript
FIRE STARTED TODAY. AND DARBY IT NEARLY BURNED TWO HOMES? YOU CAN SEE JUST HOW CLOSE THIS FIRE CAME TO REACHING THESE HOMES OVER HERE. AND IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE EFFORTS OF THE FIVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTS THAT RESPONDED TO THIS FIRE THAT DISASTER WAS AVERTED. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT STARTED THIS FIREBUT IT SPREAD QUICKLY. WITH LITTLE TO NO RAIN IN 3 WEEKS, AND LOTS OF WIND, WILD FIRES ARE BECOMING A BIG PROBLEM. AND OUT HERE, MOST FIRES ARE FOUGHT BY VOLUNTEER FIREMAN. MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY, WITH FULL TIME JOBS, CALLED UPON, DAY OR NIGHT, TO HELP SAVE THEIR NEIGHBORS THE FLAMES. "What's that like to have to drop everything you're doing and come and fight a fire?" (Gary Hull, Fire Chief of Knob Hill Fire Department) "We're fortunate enough that a lot of our fire fighters are farmers and they can lay their stuff down and go, but, you're always shorthanded because it catches you at a bad time. It's never when everyone's home that we have these fires." GARY HULL VOLUNTEERED FOR 30 YEARS BEFORE HIS PROMOTION TO FIRE CHIEF AT NOB HILL. TODAY HIS DEPARTMENT, ALONG WITH FOUR OTHERS, BATTLED THIS FIRE NEAR HINDSVILLE. IN TOTAL, 25 WERE VOLUNTEERS, ONLY ONE WAS FULL TIME. "When we're called we have the duty to respond" HULL ADMITS IT HAS BEEN A DIFFICULT FEW WEEKS. IT SEEMS LIKE EVERY DAY THERE'S ANOTHER GRASS FIRE. AND SO FAR, MOST OF THEM HAVE BEEN CAUGHT EARLY. "You never wanna go to a fire that has a death or an injury. It's a those are hard fires to fight." NOW THIS FIRE STARTED IN AN OLD TREE NURSERY, THAT'S NO LONGER IN BUSINESS. IT'S STILL NOT CERTAIN WHAT CAUSED IT LIVE IN HINDSVILLE TONIGHT, DARBY BYBEE, 40/29 NEWS. EXPERTS SAY IT WILL TAKE A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF RAIN TO DECREASE THE FIRE DANGER RIGHT NOW.