Fire consumes 1,000 acres

By Mark Gardner

About 1,000 acres were burned and two farmsteads threatened by a grass fire, the cause of which remained unknown Monday.

Rice County firefighters were called at about 3:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 24, to a blaze along 14th Road and Avenue S headed to the south.

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