WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Fire crews in Garden City will be working through Tuesday night to contain a wildfire in northeastern Finney County.
The Garden City Fire Department said the fire stretches roughly 11 miles long and 1½ wide in some spots. The fire is currently at zero percent containment and has destroyed one shed.
An 11-mile-long wildfire in Finney County. (Courtesy: Garden City Fire Department)
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“No commercial structures. It’s sort of in a rural populated area of our county, so houses are pretty spaced out, so I think that’s what aided in not being able to lose any structures today,” Chris Talmadge, Windland Operations for the GCFD, said.
Firefighting aircraft were grounded on Tuesday due to extreme winds. Talmadge said he hopes they will be able to use them on Wednesday to get to hard-to-reach areas.
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