Radford brush fire burns two acres – Athens County Independent

Radford brush fire burns two acres – Athens County Independent

ATHENS, Ohio — A brush fire on Radford Road in Athens burned about two acres of land late Wednesday afternoon. The fire’s origin was a backyard brush pile fire lit by a local resident, according to local fire officials. “[The fire] was burning at the edge of the grassy field, and it got hot enough that it caught the grass in the field on fire, and it was wind-driven after that,” Richland Area Fire Department Chief Ralph Phelps told the Independe…