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HARDWOOD LANDS<\/strong>: Twenty-eight volunteer firefighters from eight departments responded to a fully involved garage fire near a home on the afternoon of Feb. 16 in Hardwood Lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Milford Captain Ken Moxsom said firefighters from Milford, along with mutual aid from neighbouring departments in Lantz; Elmsdale; Nine Mile River; Enfield; Station 40 Dutch Settlement; Stewiacke; and Shubenacadie all responded to the 8500 block of Highway1 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said a passer by of the location noticed the garage on fire and called 911.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moxsom said the fire was in close proximity to a residence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOn arrival, the detached garage was fully involved with no occupants,\u201d he said. \u201cMy crew quickly pulled attack lines and began to extinguish the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, the garage and contents were lost in the blaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”156″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”2″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n He continued saying the home was not damaged by the heat and flames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe important thing, everyone was okay,\u201d said Moxsom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moxsom said shortly after Milford fire arrived, Lantz Fire was quick to arrive and assist in putting out the garage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With it being a daytime call (6 a.m. to 6 p.m.) Monday to Friday, departments in East Hants at times rely on neighbouring departments to assist each other as Mutual Aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe had 28 volunteer fire fighters with 11 apparatus from Milford, Lantz, Nine Mile River, Shubenacadie, Stewiacke, HRM Stn 40 Dutch Settlement, Elmsdale and Enfield; all arrived quickly to assist us,\u201d said Moxsom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn small rural communities we always adapt and overcome with the assistance of our Mutual Aid partners. As you can imagine, during the weekday a lot of members are working therefore we all rely on the other departments to help out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRecruiting is an important aspect in the Volunteer Fire Service and we always welcome new members to join and help protect and keep our communities and the residents safe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The cause of the fire was undetermined, said Moxsom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”147″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”78″] [adrotate banner=”111″] HARDWOOD LANDS: Twenty-eight volunteer firefighters from eight departments responded to a fully involved garage fire near a home on the afternoon of Feb. 16 in Hardwood Lands. Milford Captain Ken Moxsom said firefighters from Milford, along with mutual aid from neighbouring departments in Lantz; Elmsdale; Nine Mile River; Enfield; Station 40 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[196,1736,2004,1737],"class_list":["post-26550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-east-hants","tag-garage-fire","tag-hardwood-lands","tag-milford-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}