Firefighters were scrambled to a woodland blaze near Birkhill Park.
Three appliances were drafted to the scene, shortly after 4.30pm on Sunday.
They spent more than four hours taming a fire on an area of straw, near Dronley Road, that measured 100m by 100m – larger than a football pitch.
The blaze spread onto a 100m bank of trees before it was finally extinguished at 8.45pm.
‘Smoke swept across the park’
One local man said it was “fortunate” it didn’t spread further as the area was covered in smoke.
He said: “There is still a strong smell of smoke.
“The smoke swept across the park at the height of the incident.
“I saw the firies in the farmers field and they were pouring water at the trees near the football pitch.
“There wasn’t any sort of wider threat to the public, It’s fortunate it didn’t spread any further.
“The fire service have done brilliantly to contain it.”
A spokesman for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: “We were alerted at 4.36pm on Sunday, 3 September to reports of a fire in the open within a field near Dronley Road, Birkhill.
“Operations control mobilised three fire appliances to the scene, where firefighters extinguished the fire and left shortly after 9pm.
“One appliance revisited the area this morning at 9.17am after reports of a reignition of the fire and remains on scene.”
Police were also present, managing traffic along Coupar Angus Road.
