Cook County Law Enforcement received a call at 1:47 p.m. on May 9, reporting a fire danger at the City of Grand Marais’s brush disposal site near the Grand Marais water tower. The caller said someone had dropped hot coals next to the large slash pile. Grand Marais Fire Chief Ben Silence surveyed the situation and spread the coals out so they went cold, but Silence asked users of such disposal sites to think about what is being dumped.
Silence said the coals had been dumped near the dry brush pile and a hay bale and could easily have caught fire.
Users of other slash disposal sites around the county, operated by fire departments or lake associations, are asked to use the same precautions. Slash disposal sites are for grass clippings and woody debris only!
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