Ottawa Fire crews tackle large haystack fire in city’s rural south end
Posted Aug 21, 2022 02:18:00 PM.
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.
@OttFire Firefighters have a large haystack fire under control on Franktown Rd off of Joys Rd. Approx 100 5ft x 5ft round bails straw caught on fire at 6am this morning. #OttNews pic.twitter.com/Cwc1BiQxLo
— Ottawa Fire Services (@OttFire) August 21, 2022
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.
