Yesterday’s fires in Ephrata and Moses Lake indicate that the fuels in our area are ripe to burn. Grant County Fire District 13 crews responded to RD 9 NW near Dodson Rd to extinguish a controlled burn that spread to corn stubble. It took fire crews about 45 minutes to control and mop up the fire. In total, the blaze torched acre. No one was hurt and no structures burned. In Moses Lake, Crab Creek Island caught fire prompting city crews to respond around 5p.m. Fire officials say the Moses Lake Irrigation District typically will burn downstream and likely left behind a burn pile that was still smoldering causing the vegetation around it to catch fire. It took firefighters about to two hours to take care of the blaze. The fire burned into some of the trees nearby. The fire was about an acre in size.