Discarded cigarette causes season’s first grass fire

Police and firefighters in the National Capital Region are reminding motorists and others to extinguish smoking products after emergency responders dealt with the season’s first highway grass fire on Saturday afternoon. Read MorePolice and firefighters in the National Capital Region are reminding motorists and others to extinguish smoking products after emergency responders dealt with the season’s first highway grass fire on Saturday afternoon. The Ottawa detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police detachment noted on social media that a discarded cigarette was being blamed for the smoky fire  News, Cigarette, Grass fires, OPP, OttawaSun, Realtime Police and firefighters in the National Capital Region are reminding motorists and others to extinguish smoking products after emergency responders dealt with the season’s first highway grass fire on Saturday afternoon. Read More