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Springfield, Chicopee firefighters tackle brush fire near Fairview Cemetery

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The fire was confined to a 200-foot area used as a leaf dump by the nearby cemetery.

SPRINGFIELD - Firefighters from Springfield, Chicopee and Westover Air Reserve Base responded to a fire Friday afternoon in a wooded area off Newbury Street on the Springfield-Chicopee line.

Originally thought to have been a brush fire in the woods near Abbey Brook, it turned out to be confined to a roughly 200-square-foot area near Fairview Cemetery on Moore Street, Chicopee, that was being used as a dump for leaves and tree limbs, said Dennis Leger, aide to Springfield Fire Commissioner Joseph Conant.

The fire was reported at about 4 p.m., but it was extinguished by 7 p.m., he said.

He said it was not clear how the fire started.

Springfield dispatched its brush fighting truck to the scene because of the difficult terrain. The wooded area between Liberty and Newbury streets covers a few hundred acres and much of it is impassable to conventional firefighting trucks, he said.


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