Monday, July 12, 2010

Another Quiet Forest Fire Weekend

Another relatively quiet weekend for forest fires in northwestern Ontario.

Just three new blazes were reported over the past three days.

One of the fires was located on an island on Lake of the Woods just
north of Morson.

Fire crews from the Fort Frances District responded.

It was just 0.1 hectares in size.

The other fire was also small and located about 75 kilometers
southwest of Pickle Lake.

There was some smoke lingering in the Kenora area yesterday, but the
MNR says it was from fires burning in Saskatchewan.