Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — A one-vehicle accident Sunday night (October 7, 2012) cause a fire in the National Buffalo Museum pasture  about 9:50 p.m.

26 year old, Cheyenne Doble, of Little Falls, Minnesota, was traveling eastbound on U.S. Interstate 94 near exit 258 in an SUV.

Another vehicle entered the highway from the onramp.

As Doble moved toward the median to make room for the merging vehicle, the left wheel on her trailer dropped off the roadway into the median.

The SUV and trailer crossed the median, into the westbound lane and into the north road ditch, striking a fence post and continued into the buffalo pasture.

During the accident, the trailer became disconnected..

When Doble attempted to drive out of the pasture heat from the vehicle exhaust started a grass fire.

Doble was not hurt; she was wearing a seat belt.

Damage to the vehicle and trailer were not listed.

Five Jamestown Fire Department units and 27 firefighters were on the scene for about 55 minutes extinguishing the blaze.

City Fire Chief Jim Reuther says the fire units entered the pasture from the westbound lane of I-94 and over the ditch into the pasture.

He says an area of pasture about 150X150 feet was burned.

While the bison were not in danger, fire fighters were careful of the buffalo, which Reuther said were off in the distance but did not approach them

The fire caused no injuries and there were no reports of damage from the fire.

Investigating at the scene were, the North Dakota Highway Patrol, Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office, the Jamestown Police Department and the Jamestown Fire Department responded to the accident.

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UPDATE……(KCSi-T.V. News)  —  The Jamestown City Fire Department was called to the buffalo pasture, about 9:50 Sunday evening (Oct 7, 2012).

 The units put out the fire, caused by an auto accident.

City Fire Chief Jim Reuther says two equipment trucks, a pumper and a mini-pumper were sent to the scene.   

The fire units entered the pasture from the westbound lane of I-94 and over the ditch into the pasture, where the vehicle towing a trailer was located, on fire.

He says an area of pasture about 150X150 feet  was burned.

The driver had already been taken from the scene by ambulance when the fire department arrived.

While the bison were not in danger, fire fighters were careful of the buffalo, which Reuther said were off in the distance but did not approach them. 

The units were on the scene about an hour.

No other details on the car accident were immediately available.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — The Jamestown City Fire Department was called to a fire Saturday evening, about 10:15 p.m., to 811 20th Street Southwest, where an enclosed trailer was on fire.

Passsersby report smoke coming from the trailer, parked in the lot of the Comfort Inn, belonging to a hunting party, from Canada.

Damage was limited to the interior of the trailer and some of its contents.

The trailer was able to continue on to Minneapolis .

The probable cause was clothing falling on a car battery.

No injuries reported.

Approximately 20 firefighters, two pumpers and two rescue trucks were on the scene about and hour.

The fire remains under investigation.