(KAIR)--Motorists traveling on Missouri Highway 45, near Sugar Lake, are asked Thursday afternoon to avoid the area due to what KQ2-TV reports as "a large grass fire" at Sugar Lake, in Buchanan, County, Missouri.

The TV station, citing the Missouri State Highway Patrol, says the fire was reported around 1:45 Thursday afternoon, with some residents in that area evacuated.

The cause of the fire isn't immediately confirmed.