A fire in a wheat field south-west of Kitchener sent up a
white plume of smoke that could be seen throughout Kitchener, Waterloo and
Cambridge Tuesday afternoon.
The fire may have started from sparks from a combine.
It swept across 38 acres before North Dumfries Township fire
department put it out.
Chief Robert Shantz said that a spark would be enough to
ignite a blaze.
“With these dry conditions, that’s all
it takes,” he told CTV News.
The field is near
Fischer-Hallman Drive and New Dundee Road, which is the south-western corner of
Kitchener.
