The Portage la Prairie Fire Department received a call at 2:56 p.m. yesterday about a tractor on fire in a field just off Highway 16 at Road 68 North, west of Portage. When firefighters arrived the tractor was fully engulfed in flames billowing black smoke that was seen for miles. The fire spread to the cultivating equipment that it was pulling, and firefighters extinguished the blaze. The tractor was totally destroyed. No further information is available.

Smoke was seen for miles