GROTON, Vt. -
Firefighters suspect lightning started a forest fire that burned up to 20 acres in Groton, Vermont Tuesday.
They say the fire was on private property near Route 302. The fire was contained within a few hours.
Groton Volunteer Fire Chief Wayne Knott says early reports are that one firefighter was hurt though it appears to be just a cut. He says firefighters were able to stop the fire as it approached a nearby home.
"They still go everything intact, green lawn," says Knott.
Knott says there were several challenges from the terrain, to the weather, to a lack of people and resources.
"Being a small community, a volunteer community, we had to depend on a lot of our neighbors to come in and help us out," says Knott.
Knott says they called in more than 100 firefighters from all across Vermont and New Hampshire.
Knott says they will look into the cause but thinks it might have been from a lightning strike. He says the fire started and spread quickly because there were parts of trees on the ground left over from logging.
"We had a prime fuel source that just needed a spark and possibly Mother Nature is the one that gave it to us," says Knott.
