As we reported all weekend long, the Humboldt Fire Department battled a pair of blazes on Saturday.

The first one just past ten o'clock in the morning was a grass fire off Highway 5 at the Dixon turn off.

Chief Mike Kwasnica said with the wind on the weekend, a grass fire is the last thing they want to hear.

"Definitely, on a windy day like that we don't like to hear anything about grass."

"It was nice to see it was on the right side of the highway with the wind going in the proper direction so it actually worked to our favour to have the highway blocking it," he continued Monday from the hall.

The cause was a short on a power pole, they actually received a similar call to the same pole a couple years ago. SaskPower crews are working on a solution.

A much more difficult task was at hand just passed 7 o'clock when nine members and two trucks responded to a tractor fire just southwest of the city. They had to get creative on this call however.

"We noticed the fire out in the field, I went out there with my half ton and there was no way of getting to it with our big trucks," Kwasnica explained. "We have built a skit for the back of our command trucks that we utilize on this call and we managed to get out there with four loads of water. We managed to put it out with about 1,000 gallons so it worked out really well in the end."

The tractor's fate wasn't as optimistic, it was approximately five years old.

Despite the property damage, another busy week for the local emergency crews but again no serious injuries.

Despite neither incident being caused by stubble burning, Kwasnica urges common sense.

"We don't like to see anybody burning any stubble when it's that windy, it seems like it's a good idea and may be controllable but fire is way too unpredictable with the wind. A number of the fire departments I know personally were all out fighting grass fires due to field fires that had gotten away."

You can hear more from Kwasnica below.