Crews knock down fire in western P.E.I.
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Gulf Island Peat Moss is monitoring a waste pile of shavings on its property in Foxley River after the pile caught fire Monday morning, a company representative says.
The pile got hot and ignited spontaneously, the representative said.
The fire was about 100 feet by 100 feet in size on Monday morning, said William Bishop, chief of the Tyne Valley Fire Department.
Fire officials said the call about the fire came in around 8 a.m. Firefighters knocked the fire down and spread it out.
The pile is now smouldering, and fire officials have left the scene.
A representative from Gulf Island Peat Moss said the company is monitoring the area.
The province is aware of the fire and has been in contact with those involved in suppressing it, the Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action said in an emailed statement.
Gulf Island Peat Moss is a wholly owned subsidiary of Annapolis Valley Peat Moss Co. Ltd., with 1,000 hectares of land that includes a four-kilometre stretch of shoreline along the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
The company's peat bog in western P.E.I. caught fire in the summer of 2024 and smouldered for about three weeks.
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