Outdoor fire calls more than double for PA Fire
Last year was a busy year for the Prince Albert Fire Department with large increases in calls for outdoor fires over what they responded to the year before.
In 2022, PA Fire was called to 269 outdoor fires but in 2023, that number almost doubled to 525 and many of those are connected to the growth in homeless encampments.
“So that’s a significant increase of 95 per cent,” said Fire Chief Kris Olsen.
Those fires have a variety of causes, such as kids playing with matches or people having lit a fire and leaving it unattended.