{"id":57502,"date":"2025-08-05T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=57502"},"modified":"2025-08-05T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:30:00","slug":"lifeguard-credited-with-preventing-serious-woods-fire-at-oakfield-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=57502","title":{"rendered":"Lifeguard credited with preventing serious woods fire at Oakfield Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56501&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>OAKFIELD:<\/strong> An observant lifeguard can be thanked for preventing what could have been a serious forest\/woods fire in Oakfield Park on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a post on the Station 45 Fall River Facebook page, an onsite lifeguard noticed that there was smoke coming from an area in the woods and called 911 immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firefighters from Station 45 Fall River and Station 43 Grand Lake responded to the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was determined that someone had tossed still hot and used charcoal cubes into the woods at Oakfield Park causing a small fire around the base of a tree (in the picture). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quick response from multiple stations from the area prevented the fire from expanding as crews doused it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56179&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:36px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56526&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OAKFIELD: An observant lifeguard can be thanked for preventing what could have been a serious forest\/woods fire in Oakfield Park on Tuesday. According to a post on the Station 45 Fall River Facebook page, an onsite lifeguard noticed that there was smoke coming from an area in the woods and called 911 immediately. Firefighters from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[184,33,610,8934,7755,760,5990,5202],"class_list":["post-57502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-fire","tag-oakfield","tag-oakfield-park","tag-oakfieldpark","tag-station-43-grand-lake","tag-station-45-fall-river","tag-wildfire","tag-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57502","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=57502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}