Parts of Sask. See Extreme Drought

Todd Lewis, the president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, said it has not been this dry on his farm near Regina since the 1980s.

Jacqueline Patron is used to seeing trains slide by her backyard at the north edge of Regina.

But last week, the train may have left more than a lonely prairie beat. Just minutes after it passed north of Winnipeg Street, a grass fire started.

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