Fire near Sprague knocked down

A fire was reported near the town of Sprague in Lincoln County this afternoon and quickly grew to 1,600 acres, but was just as quickly put out. The fire started just after 4 p.m. next to the eastbound I-90 on-ramp at Sprague, said Lincoln County Fire District 1 firefighter Kyle Cordill. Winds pushed the blaze away from town, burning grass and sagebrush. “Nobody in Sprague was harmed,” Cordill said. “The wind was blowing to the east.” Crews from Whitman County, Adams County, Edwall, the Bureau of Land Management and Spokane County Fire District 3 assisted with the fire along with several air tankers. “The fire’s all out, contained,” Cordill said late Saturday. Eighty percent of the burned land belongs to BLM so they will be monitoring the area, Cordill said. The cause of the fire is under investigation.