Fire in the Way- Chetek, WI

We had just passed Chetek going Southbound on Hwy 53 when a firetruck with its lights on started merging onto the highway. I slowed down and let the firetruck go ahead of me, and then just stayed as far back as I could.

Suddenly, that cloud of smoke wasn’t in the distance- it was all around us. We literally drove straight into a fire that was spreading in the ditches and across the highway. The smoke came up so quickly, the woman in the car ahead of me almost rear-ended the truck we were following.