If he had not done this, we wonder how much worse it really would have been.

A farmer risks his life to stop a wildfire that broke out in a hay field in Weld County, Colorado. Eric Howard uses his tractor and a set of discs to plow up a firebreak just a few feet from the scorching blaze.

Apparently, the wildfire had consumed 30 acres of land in an 80-acre field.

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