Key West, IA – Fifty to sixty firefighters were at the scene of a fire in Key West. What is to be believed started as a grass fire spread and engulfed in flames a home at 5170 St. Joe’s Prairie.

Dispatchers were called to the scene at 5:15 PM this evening.

Neighbors say only one individual is currently living at the residence and was assisting his son with crops at the time the fire broke out. A nearby neighbor reported the fire.

Key West Fire Chief, Brian Arnold, says that there was one injury to a firefighter on the scene whose current conditions is listed as fair.

Find out more and hear from Fire Chief Arnold on From the Boulevard this Wednesday at 7pm.

Felicia Carner can be reached at felicia.carner@loras.edu