Paquette's Camp had a first hand experience with the hot dry conditions, yesterday Sue noticed a lot of smoke and flames near the camp. A tree had fallen on the power lines starting a fire, only due to the early sighting of it and the quick action of all of us including the help of some of the customers were we able to put the fire out before it got too large. Had we not have been able to extinguish it we may have lost a couple of cabins! a helicopter and fire crew were on the scene very quickly to make sure everything stayed out.  Thanks to the help of everyone there was no damage done.

Thare are many large fires burning in the area now, they have had the highway to Timmins closed for almost a week now due to fires and have a couple of towns on alert in case they need to evacuate. The winds are about 35mph right now which really challenges getting the fires under control