Estevan Fire Chief Dale Feser thanked people who partook in battling the fire. "This particular fire's cause was possibly careless discarding of smoking material out of a window of a vehicle, as it occurred right in a roadway easement and spread into a field," Feser said. "We want to remind people, anytime that you are using any kind of a smoking material to properly extinguish the cigarette butts or whatever else it may be into an ashtray or some sort of vessel or device to contain them." Shortly after crews returned to the station, a report of another fire came in. Firefighters responded to a large wildland fire occurring south of Hirsch. The Bienfait Fire Department was the first to respond to the emergency, but due to its scale, they requested mutual aid assistance.