The Steinbach Fire Department battled a brush fire south-east of Steinbach Thursday afternoon.

Fire Chief Kel Toews says they were called to the scene on Road 35E at 3:30 P.M.

“It appears we have it under control, there’s still some hot spots we’re putting out but we’ll be here for a little while yet. Right now we don’t know how much land or what the cause was. We’ll clean up all the hot spots and we’ll be able to tell after that.”

As of 4:30 P.M., Toews says they were going to be there for at least one more hour.