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stop such a fire, just hope that you prepared a fire break beforehand earlier in the year.

When things allowed earlier in the year, w/ light rains and little wind, we cleared off brush in burning off certain portions of our land, to prepare fire breaks for later in the year, for areas susceptible to wildfire or brush fires.

Grass fires in our prairie areas and a portion of the Ozarks (SW portion of MO) was our biggest worry, with a little wind, you might as well run as fast as you can out of the danger area, and call the volunteer fire dept, it'll grow that fast.

Sometimes we planned on having the volunteer fire dept, there, they would come out for training purposes, a nice touch/feature and smart.