One Nation, Under God
One Nation, Under God
Four fires started around 1:15 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 23, scorching acres of land as volunteers rushed to the blazes, the larger taking nearly six hours to extinguish. A lone wooden cross remains atop a burnt hill on Lorraine Watson's property. Two other crosses burned in the fire and all three were constructed about 10-years ago by Donald Coffman when the land was owned by Gary Coffman and himself (step sons of the late Bill Thompson.)
Thanksgiving of 2017 will be one that the folks of this county likely won't forget.
At about 1 p.m., pages went out to local volunteer firefighters that a fire was burning north of Malta. A few minutes later, more pages went out reporting four fires south of town.
The fire north of Malta was quickly extinguished, but the main fire southeast of town (near Content Road and Black Coulee Road) would burn for at least the next six hours, scorching a swath of land estimated at 10-miles long and, at its widest, 2.5 miles across.
Phillips County Volunteer Fire Chief Michael Flatt said the fire w...
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