Laramie County Sheriff's Office spokesman Lt. Don Hollingshead says a resident on the west side of County Road 124 was burning trash when it got out of hand.
Firefighters battled a large grass fire near Hillsdale for nearly three hours Wednesday afternoon.
Laramie County Fire District 2 Operations Chief Manny Muzquiz says the fire broke out west of town around noon.
"When we got there it was about 15 to 20 acres, but the wind picked up and it just moved to the south and the east pretty fast," said Muzquiz...
A grass fire in the 300 block of West 15th Street on Union Pacific property burned about 2,500 square feet before Union Pacific employees and Cheyenne firefighters put out the short-lived fire.