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NEAR POTLATCH, ID -- Emergency crews called to the scene of a field fire on the Palouse got a little more than they bargained for.

It happened yesterday near Potlatch, Idaho.

A crop duster suddenly dumped water mixed with insecticide on them.

Witnesses say the pilot was spraying the field to kill grasshoppers, his plane clipped power lines and sparks caught the hay field on fire.

The pilot filled the same crop duster tank with water, and returned to put it out.

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A patch of burned grass near Potlatch, ID. The result of a fire started by a crop duster.

But he mistakenly also dumped the load on the firefighters and deputies below.

One deputy was taken to the hospital after he got a rash from the insecticide.

He and everybody else had to be decontaminated.

The pilot could face fines from the Idaho Department of Agriculture.