HARRISBURG, Neb. (AP) — Members of a rural western Nebraska fire department are keeping watch over an area where a fire rekindled and burned nearly 200 acres.

The Banner County fire department was monitoring an area two miles south of the border of Scotts Bluff and Banner counties.

Fire Chief Tim Grubbs says the fire is located in rough country about a mile west of Highway 71. He says the fire is one of five small blazes caused by lighting. Firefighters spent nine hours at the scene on Thursday, and were called back out Friday afternoon.

Grubbs says he’d rather watch the fire in abundance of caution, so officials don’t have to come back out if it grows larger and out of control.