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Week 32 - Vol.003
www.seaforthhuronexposItor.com
Morris-
Turnberry
man dies
in collision
of truck,
motorcycle
A 39 -year-old Morris
Turnberry man is dead
after a two -vehicle
collision at Newry
Road between Gillis
Line and McNaab Line
in Huron East on Aug.
2.
Robert Williamson,
of Morris Turnberry,
was driving a Honda
motorcycle west on
Newry Road when a
Chevy Silverado
pickup truck travelling
east turned north into
the motorcycle's path
shortly before 7 p.m.,
reports the Huron
OPP.
The driver of the
pickup is a 25 -year-old
Huron East man.
Police say the
investigation is
continuing.
Doors Open... Close to
300 came through
Seaforth on the weekend
to view buildings with
their doors open... pg. 10
THURS., AUG 9th, 6:30-8pm
166 PRINCESS STREET
CUNTON
Wednesday,
Aug. 8, 2007
Aaron Jacklin photo
A neighbour on a tractor pushes back wheat straw bales as Seaforth firefighter James Wilbee tries to extinguish the blaze with the fire
hose at a fire at Gerry Ryan's farm near St. Columban on Friday.
Hot, dry conditions spark two fires
on Seaforth-area farms Friday
Susan H u n d e r t m a r k
The dry conditions that caused Huron
East Fire Chief Marty Bedard to join
the rest of Huron County and declare a
fire ban last week, caused two fires in
the Seaforth area last Friday.
Seaforth firefighters were called to a
farm on Summerhill Road near St.
Columban around 1 p.m. Friday when a
spark from farm machinery caused
some large bales of wheat straw to start
on fire.
"We were putting them in rows
behind a large hay storage building. We
were lucky because the fire department
got here quickly> and saved the
building," said owner Gerry Ryan.
Ryan says a number of neighbours
pitched in to help move straw and bales
that had not yet caught on fire but close
to 60 big bales went up in smoke.
The dry conditions caused the bales
to set the surrounding grass and
vegetation on fire and firefighters spent
close to three hours hosing down the
bales and the area to contain the fire.
"Everything's so dry it would have
been an inferno if not for the
firefighters. It was a happy ending,"
says Ryan.
Just as firefighters had the fire on
Summerhill Road under control, the
alarm rang again around 4:30 p.m. to a
hay wagon on fire one and a half miles
away on Manley Road.
Leon Maloney was pulling the last
load of hay bales to his barn when a
'bale fell to the ground and stopped the
wagon to get it. That's when he saw one
of the bales was on fire.
"I looked and saw a bale blazing to
beat hell. I never had this happen
before - I couldn't believe it," he said.
See FIREFIGHTERS, Page 8