No injuries were reported Tuesday after a vehicle caught on fire following an accident on Highway 730.
Umatilla County Fire District #1 was dispatched around 2 p.m. to a motor vehicle accident on Highway 730 near Sand Station. Upon arrival crews found the vehicle in a ditch engulfed in flames. Crews quickly ran a hose line to suppress the fire from spreading into the brush.
Umatilla Rural Fire Protection District provided mutual aid with one of their brush vehicles. The car was a total loss and approximately one acre of land was burned.
Helping with traffic control were the Oregon State Police, Oregon Department of Transportation and Washington State Department of Transportation.
