Half-acre grass fire extinguished north of Lebanon

Lebanon firefighters put out two grass fires Tuesday evening, April 23, near the intersection of Brewster Road and Payne Drive, north of the city.

According to a Lebanon Fire District report, fire crews were dispatched just before 7:30 p.m. Tuesday to a smoke investigation and, upon arrival, discovered two separate fires burning approximately 300 yards apart from one another along the train tracks that run parallel to Brewster Road.

A first alarm was struck to…