Early morning lawn tractor fire in downtown Watertown

September 23, 2022
Mike Tanner

WATERTOWN, S.D.–Watertown Fire Rescue was called to the downtown area early this morning on a report of a tractor on fire in an alley.

The call to 9 North Maple came in just before 2:30.

Fire crews arrived to find a lawn tractor parked behind Andor Incorporated fully engulfed in flames.

There was also some nearby debris along the building that had caught fire.

Crews quickly extinguished the fire and were on the scene for about twenty minutes.

There’s no indication how the fire started.