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By Doug Collins

DOMTAR FIRE

Fire crews attend hog pile fire at Domtar

Nov 14, 2019 | 5:10 AM

KAMLOOPS — Domtar crews will spend the better part of Thursday (Nov. 14) ensuring a hog pile fire is out.

Kamloops Fire Rescue crews were called to a lot adjacent to Domtar on Mission Flats Road at about 4:30 a.m.

“It was just a little bit of smoldering fire within their yard waste pile,” said Platoon Capt. Wade Lindoff. “We just spent a few hours down there, dropping loads of water and foam on it while they had a piece of equipment on scene just stirring it up for us.”

Because of the size of the waste piles, it can be a tedious process turning over the piles to ensure there is no more smoldering material.

Lindoff says spontaneous combustion within hog piles happens from time to time.

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“Yeah, it does. Heat generates within the pile from moisture and it does have the potential to ignite.”

No one was injured.