McCarroll Lake cottagers contain sauna fire

NEWS RELEASE ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE ************************* MACDONALD, MEREDITH, ABERDEEN ADDITIONAL TOWNSHIP, ON – On July 26, 2015 at approximately 3:30 a.m. a 911 call was received by Sault Ste.

NEWS RELEASE

ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE

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MACDONALD, MEREDITH, ABERDEEN ADDITIONAL TOWNSHIP, ON – On July 26, 2015 at approximately 3:30 a.m. a 911 call was received by Sault Ste. Marie Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Echo Bay Fire Department regarding a fire in the 200 block of Cottage Road.

While Police and Fire were on their way to respond, local cottagers quickly formed a bucket line retrieving water from McCarroll Lake in an effort to contain the fire and prevent further damage to the property and other cottages until emergency services arrived.

A sauna out building adjacent to a camp was destroyed.

There was no damage to any other buildings.

No injuries were reported and no one was at this location at the time of the fire.

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