Tractor destroyed by fire during harvest

Dry conditions lead to a second call to the fire department

  • These are the charred remains of a Case tractor that was destroyed by fire Thursday on a field northeast of Aurora.
    These are the charred remains of a Case tractor that was destroyed by fire Thursday on a field northeast of Aurora.
    Debris caught fire underneath the cab of a Case-IH tractor harvesting corn Thursday evening northeast of Aurora, starting a blaze that destroyed the tractor and burned a small area of the field.Aurora firefighters were called to a site on 15 and R roads, where they found the tractor “completely engulfed in flames.”“It burned it from front to back, top to bottom,” reported Jeff S...

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