DECATUR COUNTY Fall means harvest, but with all the dry weather weve had recently, it can also mean elevated risk for field fires.

Perhaps no one knows this better than John Hammersmith, who works as a Greensburg firefighter and helps on his familys farm.

They spend all year, they spend a lot of hard work, blood, sweat and tears, Hammersmith said as he described of his family, Making sure the crops grow to feed America. To see that go up in a matter of seconds in flames, that can be heartbreaking.

Drought conditions have worsened across Indiana for the last two weeks in a row, despite the little bit of rain last week. Currently, 93% of the Hoosier state is in some form of drought.

The dry weather does mean that farmers have plenty of time to work their fields, but they have their guard

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