A jet skier proved why if you "see something, say something" as he may have prevented further damage done in northern Door County over the weekend. The Sister Bay/Liberty Grove Fire Department and Door County Emergency Services were dispatched to a remote area near Highway 42 between Gills Rock and Northport before 6 p.m. on Saturday after a jet skier saw flames from the water. It took time for crews to find the fire due to the remote nature of the fire, which was located on a ledge between two bluffs. Sister Bay/Liberty Grove Fire Chief Chris Hecht says the fire likely burned for days after the area was potentially struck by lightning.
Approximately 15 firefighters and four trucks from the Sister Bay/Liberty Grove, Gibraltar, and Ephraim fire departments took parts of two days to put out the blaze. It was not the only fire attended to by firefighters over the weekend. The Brussels-Union-Gardner Fire Department responded to a straw field fire near County Highway C and Sams Road on Sunday at approximately 4:40 p.m. BUG Assistant Fire Chief Jim Wautier says the farmer believes he struck a rock as he was cutting hay, potentially providing the spark the staw that eventually burned a 100 feet by 100 feet area.
