North Dumfries Fire (Ontario) had their second large grass fire in less than a week.  This one on April 18, 2015 along West River Road in Brant County at 13:15. North Dumfries (Waterloo County) covers this area for the first hour under contract with Brant County. Approximately 25 acres of corn fields and heavy brush burned before the fire was contained, 2.5 hours after the initial dispatch.

North Dumfries responded with two pumpers, two tankers, and their rescue. Mutual aid was requested from within Waterloo County 10 minutes after arrival. New Dundee responded with a pumper and tanker, and Cambridge with their wildland 4×4. Additional mutual aid from Brant County saw St George respond with two tankers and a 6×6 brush unit from Paris.

This was the second large grass fire of the day for New Dundee, they had approximately 8-10 acres consumed an hour earlier. Box 690 Canteen responded to both of the these grass fires as well as a third  in Wellesley Township (Waterloo County) that was dispatched 15 minutes after this call. It was a very busy day in the area for grass fires. A large loom up was visible from this call. St George pumper and rescue were dispatched for a grass fire that spread to an abandoned house approximately five miles away. St George firefighters on the scene of the West River Road fire were picked up in a Gator and transported approximately a mile back to their tankers. At the same time a barn fire was dispatched near Cainsville, also in Brant County.

Gary Dinkel

Box 690

New Dundee pumper. Gary Dinkel photo

North Dumfries Tank 2 and P4. Fire started behind the tanker, spread up the hill, and jumped across into a second corn field to the left of the trucks.. Gary Dinkel photo

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Moderate winds pushed the fire up into the heavy brush. Gary Dinkel photo