The home of Robert and Erin Harmon was destroyed in a fire that apparently started in the kitchen Thursday night in Grand Meadow.

According to a Mower County Sheriff’s Office report, the Harmons called 911 at 5:40 p.m. Thursday to report a grease fire.

The couple and a 3-year-old child escaped injury, but their house was declared a total loss.

Adams Township fire

Another harvest-related fire was reported Thursday, when a pickup truck driven by Thomas Schneider drove into a picked corn field in Section 29, Adams Township.

According to a Mower County Sheriff’s Office report, a fire erupted apparently from the truck, which was determined a total loss.

Austin corn field fire

Austin Fire Chief Dan Wilson credited Brad Lukes with helping contain a picked corn field fire that threatened to be blown out of control by gusting winds Thursday morning.

The alarm was sounded at 10:25 a.m. Thursday when Mark Chrz was working a picked corn field near the intersection of 170th Street and State Highway 105 South.

Lukes plowed three times around the burning corn stalks to contain the blaze from spreading to an adjoining field were corn waited to be picked.