Iowa
Log jam in Cedar River catches fire in Linn County
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – A pile of dead trees caught fire on Saturday afternoon, causing a minor disruption to traffic on a nearby highway.
At around 3:50 p.m., the Linn County Sheriff’s Office and other agencies were sent to a report of a fire in the Cedar River near the Iowa Highway 100 bridge. Responders located the fire in a jam of trees by the bridge for the Iowa Northern Railroad.
Deputies closed the right-hand lane of eastbound traffic during firefighting operations. Around 400 feet of hose was needed off of the highway bridge to reach firefighters who had been placed on a sandbar in the river.
Nobody was hurt in the fire.
The Linn County Sheriff’s Rescue division, Iowa State Patrol, Palo Fire Department, Atkins Fire Department, and Shellsburg Fire Department were involved in the emergency response.
No cause for the fire was given.
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