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 Schneider, assista…