Brush fire in Chicopee disrupts traffic on Mass. Pike

brush fires have been reported across Western Massachusetts today as the very dry and Breezy conditions continue a portion of a major highway in chiap is back open after a fire closed it for a couple hours this afternoon and 22 News Storm Team meteorologist Adam shco is working for you with how will brush fire this afternoon caused a part of the Mass Pike to close well Nick can see we're here live on slate Road in chape just near the Mass Pike now during this afternoon brush fire did start in this area and caused both East and Westbound Lanes of the Mass Pike to be closed on and off this afternoon as that fire burned along that stretch of the Mass Pike here in chapi the brush fire was in the area of Exit 49 here in chape and was burning along both sides of the highway and also in the median for a Time both the East and Westbound Lanes had to be closed and traffic was detoured off the Mass Pike at Exit 5 1 and 49 right now it doesn't look like our brush fire danger will be going away anytime soon so the brush fire danger um is not going to go away until we get any significant amount of rain around here and cooler temperatures as well um and so it's been incredibly Breezy lately we had a lot of these windy days um which is prompted the National Weather Service to give these red flag warnings you know the last couple days we've been seeing and in the Eastern Hampton County town of Holland the fire department there along with mutual aid from other surrounding towns worked to put out a brush fire off of Allen Hill Road that fire burned around 3 to 5 acres and at last check was under control now slate Road here in chabe does remain closed and firefighters are still here U put trying to put out this brush fire that continues to burn Behind these homes here so that continues but at least things are better than they were this after afternoon when we were dealing with the the smoke and fire that was very visible across uh portions of Western Massachusetts especially here in chabe