Fire Departments in Springfield and Chicopee have been fighting a total of four brush fires Saturday afternoon.

Dry conditions have left firefighters across Western Massachusetts busy for the past two weeks with widespread brush fires.

The biggest of the three Saturday was reported at about 4:30 p.m. at 1215 Wilbraham Road in the woods behind Western New England University. Three engine companies responded to the fire and firefighters battled the blaze for about two hours, said Dennis Leger, aide to Springfield Fire Commissioner Joseph Conant.

A second small fire mainly limited to one tree was reported in Forest Park at about 5 p.m. Firefighters quickly extinguished it, Leger said.

Springfield firefighters also extinguished a third fire near the railroad tracks behind Verge and Stocker streets. The fire was reported at about 6 p.m. and burned between 5 to 7 acres before it was mostly extinguished at about 7:15 p.m.

Ludlow Fire Department assisted. Fire officials have asked all trains to be stopped while they battled the blaze.

In Chicopee, the Fire Department fought a small blaze in woods off McKinstry Avenue. The fire started at about 5 p.m. and has been extinguished.

Masslive will update as more information becomes available.