Forest Fires Weekend

Despite fairly wet weather over the past few days, the Kenora district has been the busiest in terms of forest fires this week.

The Ministry of Natural Resouces says there have been three fires reported over the past couple of days.

The most recent was reported on Friday.

A pine tree was hit by lightning and ignited.

Local residents were able to put it out before it spread into thesurrounding bush.

The other two fires are located on islands on Lake of the Woodsand are being allowed to burn for ecological reasons.