Burning off fields is common practice for farmers in area

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SIKESTON -- Although emergency responders called it one of the area's worst in years, Monday's chain-reaction accident after smoke from a field fire covered U.S. Highway 60 wasn't the first of its kind -- and it likely won't be the last.

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