WAYLAND (WKZO) — Several fire crews were dispatched on Sunday to try to extinguish a stubborn fire in a huge pile of sawdust at Mobile Pallet Services Inc. in Wayland.
The concern wasn’t saving the sawdust, they were worried about the fire spreading to a dry-as-a-bone wooded area a short distance from the pile in the 800 block of S. Main.
They believe the fire Sunday was the result of spontaneous combustion inside the pile of wood dust.
Dead brush from last fall is highly flammable at this time of the year, and the situation has been made worse because it’s been weeks since there has been any serious rainfall.
They hope precipitation overnight may have helped reduce the regional threat..
