HUMBOLDT — Hot, dry weather continues to keep area firefighters in action.
One day after a large grass and cornfield fire burned off hundreds of acres near Savonburg, a fire southeast of Humboldt forced officers to close the northbound lane of U.S. 169 for a spell.
“We had a lot of trucks coming into and out of the field, and we didn’t want to make it any more hazardous for them than it already was,” Undersheriff Bryan Murphy said.
The fire burned between the highway and California Road. The flames…
