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Grant County Fire District 5 battled to contain a fire on a Columbia Basin Railroad trestle Wednesday. The fire happened one mile east of road Q N.E., north of I-90 near Moses Lake. Battalion Chief Rick Wentworth said the irrigation district was burning weeds, when the trestle caught on fire. The track crosses an irrigation district ditch. "The fire got a hold of this thing and we were probably 20 minutes getting it under control and two hours mopping it up," Wentworth said. Wentworth said the fire district put the fire out approximately an hour before a train was scheduled to go over the tracks.