MEREDITH — Firefighters spent nearly three-quarters of an hour corralling and dousing a brush fire that broke out shortly after 1 p.m. yesterday on steep slopes and rough terrain off Swain Road in the Chemung.
Fire Chief Ken Jones said that the fire appeared to have started when wind snapped a tree limb, downing power lines and setting the abundant dry tinder alight.
"We had two separate fires," he said, adding that together they burned about an acre. The challenge for firefighters, Jones said, was stretching hose over steep ground littered with fallen limbs and strewn with rocks.
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