A wildfire in the town of Brussels Tuesday afternoon eventually required the response of 11 fire departments from Door, Brown and Kewaunee counties. The Brussels-Union-Gardner Fire Department was dispatched shortly before 3 p.m. to a wooded swamp area near the corner of Tru Way Road and Swamp Road to fight a wildfire for more than two hours. BUG Fire Captain Dalton Everard says flames were shooting ten feet in the air when crews arrived with winds spreading the blaze quickly to the northwest, prompting a MABAS call to other fire departments.
Everard estimates between two and three acres of land was burned. A drone from the Egg Harbor Fire Department was used to look for hot spots before crews left the scene Tuesday night. The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.
