Crews battle fire by tracks & 281 bypass Tues pm

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown Rural Fire Department was called out about 4:30-p.m., to a brush – grass fire near the Highway 281 by-pass, west of Jamestown, near the BNSF tracks where about 50 acres were burned.

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As the fire spread, the Jamestown City Fire Department was called about 4:49-p.m., to give mutual aid to the rural fire fighters,  with 10 city firefighters and three fire trucks responding to the scene.   JRFD had 20 firefighters and all of its vehicles at the scene.

The fire started near the railroad tracks that run under  the U.S. 281/52 Bypass west of Jamestown, and was rapidly moving north and northwest as fire crews were on the scene attempting to get the blaze under control.

BNSF had halted rail traffic through the area.

The fire burned roughly burned  50 acres of land.

Assistant Fie Chief Joel Guthmiller says the fire appeared to be accidentally started by a passing train.

Firefighters were on the scene about two hours.

There were no injuries reported and and no property  damaged reported.

Guthmiller said deputies with the Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office monitored the fire scene Tuesday night into today.

CSi photographer Thomas Ravely was on scene.