BARTON COUNTY- Fire crews were called to a pair of fires at the same time on Sunday afternoon in Barton County.

An electrical cord is blamed for starting a grass fire that also consumed a large hay bale near Kansas 96 and NW 70th Avenue, according to Great Bend Fire Chief Mike Napalitano.

A second fire in the river area near the Radium Bridge burned brush and grass. “We’d been out earlier the day after a campfire or something was left smoldering,” said Napalitano. “It rekindled and we had to go back and make sure it was out.”

There were no injuries.