NORWOOD — Glen Cymbaluk was wakened at four o’clock in the afternoon by someone pounding on his door and hollering: "Call 911."

The baby sitter made the call and Cymbaluk left his bed to see his lawn on fire and the flames headed for the house.

A wagon of hay that Ron Hurtubise had bought from Scott Stewart was engulfed in flames and stopped in front of Cymbaluk’s house. "The wagon was fully inflamed," Cymbaluk said.

Cymbaluk said a strong wind had come up, and Hurtubise didn’t know the wagon was on fire until he felt the heat on his back.

"Everything has been bone dry here," he said.

Cymbaluk and Hurtubise battled the flames until the fire department arrived 10 minutes later, and Cymbaluk sent his four children and the sitter to a neighbor’s. He works a midnight shift and sleeps during the day.

The Duoro-Dummer Fire Department had been putting out a grass fire whose origins are still unknown and was deployed on the road the wagon had traversed. It is believed the grass fire might have been sparked by drift from the smoldering load. A simultaneous grass fire to the north was not believed caused by the burning wagon.

The fire was contained 25 feet from the house, but Cymbaluk said there were some tense moments for him.

Though no one was hurt, three fire stations responded to the blaze and worked through the night putting out flare-ups.

An hour after the fire department arrived, what was left of the smoldering round bales lay on the road. It was loaded into a truck and transported to a gravel pit where it could do no damage.

The cause of the fire is open to speculation. Some people blame it on a faulty bearing, others a spark from the tractor exhaust.