Butler County fire companies found themselves busy Monday with brush fires.

County fire companies responded to nine individual fire calls, as well as two brush fires that had rekindled, all between 11:45 a.m. and 8:10 p.m.

Steve Bicehouse, director of emergency services, said that warm weather and wind, along with people clearing out brush around their properties made the conditions right for these fires.

A report of woods on fire off Harrisville Road in Cherry Township brought out 12 companies.

“That was the biggest one,” Bicehouse said.

The call came in to the county 911 center at 12:13 p.m. Marion Township Volunteer Fire Company Chief Joe Fitzgerald said about 4 acres of woods burned.

Fitzgerald said someone was burning trash, which the wind picked up and spread the blaze. He said it took about 45 minutes to and hour to knock down the flames, and firefighters were on scene for several more hours to put out hot spots and make sure the fire did not rekindle.

Because of the difficulty of getting vehicles through the trees, he said about 25 firefighters went into the woods with tanks to help put out the fire. Crews had to cut down several trees.

Two houses were threatened by the flames, but firefighters were able to prevent them from catching fire.

“There was not any structure damage at all,” Fitzgerald said.

Besides this, brush fires also were reported in Donegal, Lancaster, Cranberry, Clay, Clinton, Buffalo, Venango and Middlesex townships.

With the grass getting greener and rain coming this week, Bicehouse said the spring brush fire season is about to end.

“We’re getting out of it now,” Bicehouse said.