COLES COUNTY, Ill. (WCIA) -- The Lincoln Fire Protection District responded to multiple fires over the last several days -- including two "intentionally set" field fires which ignited within 24 hours of each other.

Firefighters with the Lincoln Fire Protection District battled a house fire on Park St. in Lerna around 12:30 p.m. on Saturday. When crews arrived, they found smoke coming from the eaves and smoldering appliances in the kitchen that had been burning for an "extended period of time."

The firefighters extinguished the fire with a hose and searched the home to make sure no one was inside. As the crews were completing overhaul operations, they got the call that a field fire had broken out -- and it was spreading.

Firefighters responded to North County Road 1000 E and East County

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