MOUNTAIN HOME -- Winds fueled a grass fire near Mountain Home Air Force Base this afternoon that blackened around 700 acres.
Crews from the base along with the Mountain Home Fire Department and Bureau of Land Management responded to the fire shortly before noon.
"I was freaked," said Kellie Dunham, who lives near where the fire started and saw it just miss her property. "We've lived here for over 10 years and this is the closest we've ever had a wildfire. It freaked me out. It was scary, it was really scary."
Elmore County Sheriff's deputies evacuated some homes in the area.
The Hog Fire, as it has been named, burned around houses near Airbase Road and Old Grandview Road. No homes were destroyed, but a few outbuilding were lost in the fire, like some of the chicken coops on Jessica Gomez's small farm.
But she says, luckily, they only lost one chicken and could've lost much more.
"It could've been a lot worse," said Gomez. "We could've lost everything. That's our livelihood out there, those chickens. That's where we get our eggs and everything. So, we could've lost a lot."
Investigators believe the fire is human-caused, but they have not determined what sparked the fire.
Highway 51 near the fire was closed briefly, but reopened around 2:30 p.m.
The BLM put a lot of resources on the fire, including 4 engines, 2 dozers, 1 water tender, 2 heavy airtankers, 6 single engine airtankers, 1 air attack plane and 1 lead plane.
Officials say wind gusts up to 25 miles per hour moved the flames to the southeast. Crews have managed to knock down the fire and get a line around it. They are now doing mop up work.
The BLM tells us the fire was contained last night and is expected to be under control by 8 p.m. tonight.
