Firefighters’ “quick” response to a rapid-moving brush fire south of Brownsville limited it to about 30 acres, Zach Lincoln, training captain for the Brownsville Fire District said Wednesday, July 23.
Lincoln said local firefighters were dispatched to the scene approximately six miles south of the town, near the intersection of Gap Road and Belts Drive, at 12:26 p.m.
They arrived to find a fire in a field moving towards timber. Nine agencies…