A passing train ignited two fires — one in Bend and one in Redmond — Monday due to a the locked up brakes on a rail car, fire officials said.

Sparks from a train car’s locked-up brakes ignited two small fires on Monday in Bend and Redmond along the tracks that parallel U.S. Highway 97, authorities said.

Around 2:45 p.m. Bend Fire & Rescue crews responded to a brush fire along the east side of the highway north of the Butler Market Road exit, Cindy Kettering, spokesperson for the agency, said in a news release.

The fire was pushed to the south by gusty winds, Kettering said. However, the railroad tracks to the east and a canal to the south provided natural fire breaks, so crews held the fire’s progress to about a quarter of an acre, she said.

Investigators later discovered a train had recently passed through the area traveling south. A small fire had also ignited in Redmond, Kettering said.

Burlington Northern Santa-Fe Railway employees stopped the train to inspect it, and they found that one of the car’s breaks had locked up.

“The car was removed from the train at the rail yard for repairs and the train continued south,” Kettering said in the news release.