Lightning raises fire alert

Northwest Bureau
Saturday, July 7, 2012 - 08:00
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Bog Jedruch, a fire equipment technician with the Ministry of Natural Resources Provincial Logistics Centre, tunes up a pump that has arrived from a fire in eastern Ontario so it can be ready for use. Crews are ready to respond to new fires.
Bog Jedruch, a fire equipment technician with the Ministry of Natural Resources Provincial Logistics Centre, tunes up a pump that has arrived from a fire in eastern Ontario so it can be ready for use. Crews are ready to respond to new fires.

Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources fire crews are on high alert heading into the weekend in anticipation of new lightning-caused forest fires.

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