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A wildfire in Muskoka Lakes burned an acre of forest floor Saturday. The fire started on a residential property on Summit Road at 2:41 p.m. Fire services arrived on the scene at around 2:47 and extinguished the fire by 4:33. No one was injured. The property’s owner was burning yard waste inside burn barrels when the wind blew the fire into nearby foliage, according to fire officials. The owner did not have a daytime burning permit, a problem which Muskoka Lakes Fire Chief Ryan Murrell says th...

  BARRIE, ONT. -- Quick action by the employees of a custom blacksmith business in Muskoka helped save the building from being destroyed by fire Tuesday. The Muskoka Lakes Fire Department responded to a fire call in the afternoon at The Smithy Limited, a custom blacksmith shop on Muskoka Road 169. When crews arrived, the fire was in the attic, and they were able to contain the fire to one area of the building. Fire Chief Ryan Murrell says it was the quick action of the employees calling 9...

SHARE ON: Photo credit: Hilary Clark from Pixabay The Muskoka Lakes Fire Department says no one was injured in the small fire at a business just off of Highway 169 in Glen Orchard. The town’s Fire Chief Ryan Murrell tells the MyMuskokaNow.com newsroom the fire was reported as “smouldering in the attic.” They were dispatched shortly after 1:30 PM Tuesday with equipment arriving from the department’s stations in Foot’s Bay, Glen Orchard and Bala.  The first responders attempted to put...

SHARE ON: Where the fire originated at the home on Brackenrig Road (Photo credit: @MuskokaLakesFD on Twitter) The Muskoka Lakes Fire Department estimates $30,000 of damage was done after an early morning fire on Brackenrig Road in Port Carling. Fire Chief Ryan Murrell says they arrived just after 1 AM. “Upon arrival, crews found that there was a back wall at the back of the property that was on fire,” he explains. “It appeared the fire started somewhere on the deck.” He says both occup...

Thanks to their dog, two people in Port Carling escaped a house fire without injury. Around 2 Sunday morning, 25 firefighters with the Muskoka Lakes Fire Department responded to a call at Indian Point Road. Fire Chief Ryan Murrell says the fire started in the garage attached to the home. The occupants were asleep and didn’t have a fire alarm in the garage so they were unaware. Murrell says it was their dog that alerted them to the fire. “People tell me their dog was resteless or the dog was...