Shortly before 10 p.m., fire crews from Station 42\/43 Wellington\/Grand Lake were paged to a structure fire with flames showing at a home on Oak Lane in Grand Lake. EHS and police also responded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The home was secluded off the main roadway, Oakleaf Crescent, so it isn\u2019t visible from the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once you walk in you can see the devastation that the conflagration caused, destroying the home which was still smoldering on Tuesday morning at around 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”71″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Besides Station 42\/43, as part of the mutual aid protocol, Station 45 Fall River; Station 47 Goffs; Station 43 Grand Lake; Station 41 Waverley; Tac 8 from Bedford; Station 9 Sackville; Elmsdale fire; Lantz fire; Milford fire; and Nine Mile River fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Firefighters from Station 42\/43 were on site keeping an eye for hot spots and the smoldering, and spraying water on it when needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Station 45 Fall River firefighters arrived at about 1015\/1030 a.m. with more water to put on the hot spots if required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Incident Commander Ryan Crain, with Station 42 Wellington, said as fire crews arrived, they knew it was going to be a defensive attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFlames were through the roof, it was defensive fire conditions,\u201d he said at the scene. \u201cIt was heavy fire load, so we just put the water on the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Neighbours had posted the woman was okay outside of having a few burns as a result of the fire, and was transported to hospital by EHS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Crews used the dry hydrant at the Grand Lake Oakfield playground first but quickly drained it so a water shuttle was setup and used from the Enfield Big Stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There were approximately 50 firefighters on scene or part of the call, Crain said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe had great mutual aid response,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhere we don\u2019t have a water source in this area we needed as many tankers as possible to shuttle water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The house was still smoldering with smoke coming from it, so an excavator had been called in and crews were watching it closely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cStill smoldering so that\u2019s why we\u2019re still on scene searching for hot spots working with the excavator to get the rest of it torn down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”192″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”206″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”105″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”93″] [adrotate banner=”188″] GRAND LAKE: Firefighters battled the frigid winter weather at a house fire late on Monday night in Grand Lake. Shortly before 10 p.m., fire crews from Station 42\/43 Wellington\/Grand Lake were paged to a structure fire with flames showing at a home on Oak Lane in Grand Lake. EHS and police […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[184,381,680,1737,3486,7754,5879,7755,760,34],"class_list":["post-52241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-fire","tag-grand-lake","tag-house-fire","tag-milford-fire","tag-nine-mile-river-fire","tag-oak-lane","tag-station-42-wellington","tag-station-43-grand-lake","tag-station-45-fall-river","tag-structure-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52241","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=52241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_8201-1024x683.jpg\")
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