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Some of the local recipients include $10,000 to Buckland Fire Department and $10,000 to the Cridersville Fire Department in Auglaize County. Columbus Grove Fire Department got $10,000, Continental Fire Department got $5,500, Glandorf Fire Department received $6,808.55, Miller City Fire Department $3,886.91, and Ottoville Fire Department got $10,000 in Putnam County.

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A total of six different fire departments were called out to a fire just north of Columbus Grove Thursday afternoon. At around 2 o'clock, Columbus Grove Fire Department got a call pertaining to a field fire, just off of Road T13. The fire spread from a brush fire from a house near the cornfield, and it managed to burn nearly 40 acres of corn stubble. The fire took just under two and a half two hours to contain.