CARRINGTON, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – The Carrington Fire Department was called out twice Monday to two separate calls in the region.

Carrington Fire Chief Ken Wangen reports they were called out at 3 PM to the Rifle Range.

“[We] don’t know what started that one,” Chief Wangen added. “We dealt with it until around 7 PM.”

Following that call, the department was dispatched out again to a farm just south of Highway 9 at around 8:30 PM.

“[It] looks like that was started by a tree branch falling on a power line,” Chief Wangen reports. “We got lucky as none of the buildings caught fire. About the only thing it burned was scrap piles.”

Crews were out until around 11 PM with the call.

“lease be careful out there, we are abnormally dry,” Wangen added. “Any type of open burning (garbage pits, trash barrels and recreational fire pits) has the potential to get away. And if anybody burned in the last week, they should check on that burn as these winds have the potential to uncover and blow embers and start new fires.”

It was reported that Fire Departments in Medina, Woodworth, Pettibone, McClusky, Goodrich, Cooperstown, McVille, New Rockford, Jamestown Rural and Carrington had dealt with fires in some capacity.

“I am sure several more were out as I’ve also seen that Fort Totten was on an evacuation alert from a fire that was in Sheyenne’s jurisdiction,” Chief Wangen stated.