{"id":36344,"date":"2023-06-09T23:21:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T02:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=36344"},"modified":"2023-06-09T23:21:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T02:21:13","slug":"rcmp-issues-fine-to-lantz-man-for-having-fire-during-burn-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=36344","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED: RCMP issues fine to Lantz woman for having fire during burn ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>UPDATED: Police revised the release June 10 saying it was a woman not a man. So we updated the story.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LANTZ:<\/strong> A 61-year-old woman has been issued a fine of almost $29,000 under the Forest Act after a complaint to police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Const. Preston Burns, with East Hnats RCMP, said police received a call of an open fire at a residence early in the afternoon of June 9. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;On arrival, an officer was able to locate a hose on the property to extinguish the fire before it spread,&#8221; said Const. Burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;190&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coonst. Burns said charges and a fine were then issued to the woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the Lantz resident was charged under Section 24(2) of the Forest Act for Igniting fire in the woods or within 1000 feet of woods when a fire proclamation is in effect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fine holds a monetary penalty of $28,872.50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] UPDATED: Police revised the release June 10 saying it was a woman not a man. So we updated the story. LANTZ: A 61-year-old woman has been issued a fine of almost $29,000 under the Forest Act after a complaint to police. Const. Preston Burns, with East Hnats RCMP, said police received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[4995,5041,595,14],"class_list":["post-36344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-burn-ban","tag-forest-act","tag-lantz","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36344","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=36344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}