Ottawa Fire crews tackle large haystack fire in city’s rural south end

The Ottawa Fire Services (OFS) tackled a large haystack fire in the city's rural south end early Sunday morning. 

Firefighters said they received a call at approximately 5:48 a.m., after there was a haystack fire on Franktown Road off of Joys Road, near the Munster area. 

At 6 a.m., approximately 100 round straw bails caught on fire, which were 5 feet by 5 feet in length. 

Fire crews managed to extinguish the fire, preventing it from spreading to a nearby tree line. The fire was declared under control at 6:21 a.m.

The fire, crews said, took place in an area with no access to fire hydrants and therefore firefighters used tanker trucks to shuttle in water from a hydrant in a new sub-division on Noriker Court and an excavator was brought in to help pull the hay bails apart to extinguish the hot spots. 

No one was injured.