Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 4/16/2021 1:50:07 PM
An illegal burn barrel fire spread to the surrounding woods and destroyed a snowmobile before the Antrim Fire Department could extinguish it on Thursday morning. First responders were summoned to 194 Old Hancock Road at 9:35 a.m., where the elderly landowner had been attempting to extinguish the flames himself after a fire spread through the holes in the bottom of a burn barrel onto the surrounding leaves. The man had inhaled some smoke and was checked by ambulance personnel but ultimately refused further treatment, Gale said.
The fire jumped a stone wall and started to get into the woods, and consumed a snowmobile and damaged a trailer, Gale said, but the Fire Department got it under control before it reached two nearby outbuildings. Gale attempted to contain the fire’s perimeter with a forestry rake until trucks arrived, he said, after which the fire was out in five minutes.