Harvey County firefighters creating task force to battle wildfires

Firefighters in Harvey County are fired up about a new task force. It’s called the Harvey County Wild Land Task Force.

A brush fire just south of Halstead Tuesday took crews about an hour to get under control. The Halstead fire chief said they had to rely on help from other counties. It’s an example he said of how a wild fire task force could lower response time.

“If we would have had the complete task force set up we wouldn’t have had to have asked and the times would have been compressed quite a bit probably saved us about 20 minutes,” said Halstead Fire Chief Jim VanSchaick.

(Read more: KSN-TV)