Jeff Innes, a former Brainerd firefighter and current employee at Brainerd Public Utilities, uses a fire hose to extinguish a grass fire Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, that burned a portion of the hillside on east College Drive near Kiwanis Park in Brainerd.
December grass fire
With the lack of snow cover, grass and brush is dry in central Minnesota and susceptible to grass fires.

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