{"id":48241,"date":"2024-09-06T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=48241"},"modified":"2024-09-06T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T21:30:00","slug":"quick-response-by-firefighters-keeps-residence-safe-from-garage-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=48241","title":{"rendered":"Quick response by firefighters keeps residence safe from garage fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;87&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;92&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MILFORD:<\/strong>\u00a0Seven fire departments responded to a structure fire in Milford late on Tuesday afternoon Sept. 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Milford Fire Deputy Chief Ken Moxsom said that crews were paged out at approximately 4 p.m. on Sept. 3 to the 2000 block of Hwy 2 in Milford for a working structure fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUpon arrival we had a 20\u2019 x 30\u2019 detached garage fully involved with flames preparing to impinge on the nearby residence,\u201d said Moxsom in an interview with The Laker News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said Milford Firefighters reacted quickly and cooled the nearby structure then worked to knock down and extinguish the fire within the garage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that on arrival, Lantz Firefighters assisted with the fire attack and overhaul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe garage remained standing however due to it being fully involved on arrival, the garage is estimated as a total loss,\u201d said Moxom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also destroyed within the garage was some yard machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No injuries were incurred due to the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides Milford fire, mutual aid assistance was provided by six other departments with 10 apparatus and 33 firefighters overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mutual aid for this call came from Lantz fire; Shubenacadie fire; Indian Brook fire; Elmsdale fire; Enfield fire; and Nine Mile River fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moxsom said that EHS and RCMP were also on scene to assist if needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause of the fire undetermined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;218&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;169&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;87&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;92&#8243;] MILFORD:\u00a0Seven fire departments responded to a structure fire in Milford late on Tuesday afternoon Sept. 3. Milford Fire Deputy Chief Ken Moxsom said that crews were paged out at approximately 4 p.m. on Sept. 3 to the 2000 block of Hwy 2 in Milford for a working structure fire. \u201cUpon arrival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[196,4980,1736,3355,1204,1737,48,14],"class_list":["post-48241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-east-hants","tag-east-hants-fire","tag-garage-fire","tag-hwy-2","tag-lantz-fire","tag-milford-fire","tag-n-s","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48241","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=48241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48241\/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=48241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}