ICE LAKE—With the weather conditions leading to dry grass on Manitoulin Island, anyone who is setting fires of any kind needs to be extremely careful, says the fire chief of the Gore Bay Volunteer Fire Department.
“The grass is dry on the top so people need to be very careful when setting any type of fire,” Mr. Addison told the Recorder on Monday.
The Gore Bay Volunteer Fire Department had to respond to what turned out to be a false alarm last Friday evening, Mr. Addison told the Recorder. “It was a false alarm,” he told the Recorder. “We responded to a call of a fire, in which a man had been burning items in a burn barrel and the fire got out. It burned a little bit of the grass around the barrel but when we arrived on the scene the fire he had already put it out.”
The incident took place at a residence in Ice Lake on the evening of Friday, April 15.
