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March 9, 2021
By Kristena Schutt-Moore
With weather warming and thoughts turning to spring, community members start making plans for spring cleaning and fun days in the sun. However there are some things that the local fire department would like the public to keep in mind while making their plans.
From 2009 to 2018 the Ontario Fire Marshals Office collected data on the number of fires there were in Ontario, where they were and what started them. There were 113,111 fires across Ontario during those years. Of that 47 per cent happened in occupied residential buildings, 27 per cent occurred in vehicles, and 13 per cent occurred on structures/properties not classified by the Ontario Building code – this includes many non structure property types – land, outdoor storage, and some structures ranging from barns to weather stations. These numbers are believed to not have changed much in the past few years.