MNR Lays Charges

The Ministry of Natural Resources has laid charges against a Rainy River district individual in connection with a recent forest fire in the area.

Details of the incident were not immediately revealed, but the MNR says the individual was charged under the Forest Fires Prevention Act.

Meantine, the Ministry continues to investigate a recent human-caused fire that burned about 0.1 hectare near Crow Rock, east of Fort Frances.