VIDEO/PHOTOS: Firefighters and first responders worked quickly to suppress a brush fire at Brooks Nature Park that for a brief period Wednesday night threatened an adjacent home. St. George Fire Department Chief Robert Stoker said in a briefing to the press around 9:30 p.m. that the alarm sounded just after 8 p.m.
“We received a call for a brush fire here on the top of Main Street, about 400 North and Main,” Stoker said, adding that the fire burned below the water tower in the area of Brooks Nature Park.
“The reporting person said they saw some smoke, a small fire and some juveniles running from the scene,” Stoker said. It was a quick-thinking 12-year-old who called 911 when he heard screams and saw flames in the nature park.