Fire ban in effect for RM of Vanscoy after grass fire

Sarah Onyango · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 15, 2025 6:03 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

The Rural Municipality of Vanscoy, located southwest of Saskatoon, is nether a implicit occurrence ban.

The municipality issued the prohibition connected Tuesday beginning astatine midnight CST. It comes aft a writer occurrence went retired of power successful the country connected Monday.

Leonard Junop, reeve for the RM of Vanscoy, said the occurrence was connected the westbound broadside of Highway 60, astatine the country of Highway 60 and Christiansen Road.

Junop said the fire started arsenic a controlled pain but rapidly became unmanageable.

"It's conscionable the writer close present is truthful adust and there's nary greenish maturation coming yet, it conscionable takes disconnected and burns," Junop said.

In a merchandise issued Monday, the RM stated that the prohibition volition use to each lands located wrong the RM of Vanscoy, with the objection of some municipalities including Delisle and the Village of Vanscoy, and Pike Lake Provincial Park.

"They don't look to get excessively disquieted astir the towns and villages due to the fact that determination isn't the large writer areas there," Junop said.

The prohibition prohibits cultivation oregon commercialized burning, unfastened burning, fireworks, campfires, occurrence pits, burning barrels and incinerators of immoderate kind. CSA and UL-approved appliances specified arsenic liquid-fuel barbecues, occurrence tables and campy stoves are inactive allowed.

Junop expects the prohibition to beryllium rescinded arsenic the upwind begins to alteration and the writer turns green.

"The writer should commencement to turn arsenic soon arsenic we get immoderate much heat," helium said.

"Once we get immoderate greenish worldly successful the ground then we tin instrumentality the occurrence prohibition off."

Junop said helium hopes everyone tin beryllium considerate of the prohibition arsenic agelong arsenic it is successful effect.

"Some radical don't similar to spot a occurrence ban, but erstwhile the occurrence is burning connected your beforehand doorstep, you don't similar to spot that either."