By Bianca Montes
Victoria Advocate
CAPE CARANCAHUA, Texas — Several fire trucks responding to a grass fire in Cape Carancahua, about a mile south of the state Highways 35 and 172 intersection, ended up stuck in the mud for almost two hours Friday.
Workers with Palacios Marine & Industrial, a shipyard business in Palacios, assisted the firefighters by pulling the trucks out of the mud with a tractor, Craig Brooks, Cape Carancahua fire chief said.
Brooks said it’s usual for trucks to become stuck in the fields near the fire because the land is wet and it’s composed of loose, sand-like dirt. He said it’s been a couple years since one of his fire trucks got stuck.
Two trucks from the Carancahua Community Volunteer Fire Department, a truck from the Vanderbilt Volunteer Fire Department and a truck from the Edna Fire Department were all stuck in the mud.
Port Lavaca Fire Department, and volunteers from , Lolita, Ganado, Olivia-Port Alto, and La Ward fire department were called out to assist.
The fire was reported just before noon. Brooks said it took about an hour and a half to get the trucks out of the mud.
Just before 3 p.m., he said the fire was well under control.
Brooks said they do not know how the fire started, but it began on the side of the road, immediately north of County Road 302 on the left side of state Highway 172 and spread across a ditch into the mainland. He estimated about 50 acres of mainland was damaged by the fire.
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