Local firefighters dealt with a brush fire and a tree fire south of Jasper on Monday afternoon.
The Jasper Fire Department and the Texas A&M Forest Service were sent to a small brush fire. It occurred shortly after 4:00 in the 300 block of County Road 298. Firefighter Gerald Hudson was first on scene and he reported that the blaze was behind a house.
As firemen were wrapping up on that blaze, the Tri-Community Fire Department was dispatched shortly before 5:00 to the 1600 block of County Road 434 where it was reported that a dead tree was burning.
No structures were damaged and no injuries were reported in either incident, and it's unknown how each fire started.
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