Brush fire in Columbia

By Corey Saathoff on January 26, 2014 at 1:31 pm

The Columbia Fire Department was paged out around 12:25 p.m. Sunday for a reported brush fire out of control at 2720 Steppig Road.

Corey Saathoff

Corey is the editor of the Republic-Times. He has worked at the newspaper since 2004, and currently resides in Columbia. He is also the principal singer-songwriter and plays guitar in St. Louis area country-rock band The Trophy Mules.

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