It was a busy weekend for the Fort Frances Fire and Rescue Service who responded to no fewer than five calls.
Saturday morning about 10 a.m., the department was called to a home on Kaitlyn Drive to deal with a kitchen fire.
The owners of the home had the blaze extinguished by the time firefighters arrived, but not before it caused some fire and smoke damage to the kitchen.
Early Sunday morning at about 5 a.m., the department responded to a call of smoke filling an apartment on 6th Street East.
The problem was pinpointed to a burned out furnace fan.
An hour later, crews rushed to a home in the 400 block of Church Street where an elderly woman was taken to hospital for treatment after fire started in a sofa and filled the home with smoke.
Within fifteen minutes of arriving, firefighters were dispatched to a smoke alarm in the 1100 block of Scott Street which turned out to a false alarm.
And last night at round 8:30 p.m., Fort Frances Fire was sent to Gillon's Insurance on Church Street where a burned out roof fan sent smoke into the building.
Damage was considered miminal.
