A farmer in the Town of Sevastopol received some unplanned assistance clearing his fields Monday morning when some of his freshly harvested fields caught fire.

The Sturgeon Bay Fire Department responded to the fire near Whitefish Bay Road and Ploor Road before 11:15 a.m., which stretched several hundred feet across the field. Firefighters went toe-to-toe with the fire in brush trucks while also doing some additional plowing to prevent it from jumping the road into another field. Sturgeon Bay Fire Chief Kalin Montevideo says the farmer was working hard in his combine when he noticed a fire trail behind him.

Approximately 10 to 15 acres of the field burned due to the fire, requiring firefighters to use 12,000 gallons of water to put it out and saturate the field. Door County remains unseasonably dry thanks to warm temps and windy conditions drying things out. Door County is among the over 50 counties with high fire danger. Across the bay and in the central part of the state, more than a dozen counties at the very level, while six others in southeastern Wisconsin have moderate fire danger.