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.
Downtown Antrim Staff photo by Abbe Hamilton
Published: 1/27/2021 4:36:28 PM
Antrim
No damage due to furniture burn
The Antrim Fire Department told a resident to stop burning furniture after responding to a report of a structure fire early Wednesday morning. No buildings were damaged.
Firefighters responded to 135 Clinton Road after receiving a call from a neighbor at 6:13 a.m. who believed the barn on the property was on fire, Fire Chief Marshall Gale said. Although the barn wasn’t on fire, the outdoor fire was “a lot closer to the structure than I would have liked to have seen,” he said, and they ultimately issued a cease and desist order to the residents for burning furniture, which counts as “non-permissable materials,” Gale said.