Crews from the Douglas Forest Protective Association and Douglas County Fire District No. 2 responded to 2 grass fires on Thursday afternoon.
Kyle Reed from DFPA said at approximately 3:20 p.m. firefighters responded to a grass fire 6 miles west of Sutherlin, near the 7,000 block of Oakhill Road. Reed said crews arrived on the scene and found a slow-moving grass fire located between a mowed hay field and Calapooya Creek. Firefighters stopped the fire at 1/4 acre of grass and brush.
While crews were mopping up the Oak Hill Road Fire, a second grass fire was reported at 3:50 p.m., located 7 miles west of Roseburg near the 4,000 block of Melrose Road. A crew from Seneca Jones Timber Company was passing through the area, saw the fire and attacked it. That crew stopped the forward spread of the blaze by the time fire crews arrived on the scene. The Melrose Road Fire burned about 1/10th of an acre of grass.
Reed said preliminary investigations indicated that both the Oak Hill Road Fire and the Melrose Road Fire were powerline related.