Drivers heading through Route 17 in Windward Hills, Yona are being asked to seek alternate routes as fire fighters battle a grass fire.

Units with the Guam Fire Department responded to the area near Our Lady of Peace Cemetery around 11:30 a.m. today.

“Upon arrival units found the grass fire to be on both sides of the road,” said GFD spokesperson Lt. Nick Garrido. “This is currently an active fire.”

The public is being asked to take alternate routes, as the road will remain closed until the fire is under control.