Sutherland Drive Park Fire

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Mike Koshowski, acting captain with the Kingston Fire and Rescue left uses a broom to sweep burning material away from non burnt material while Steven Duetta and Dan Rioux spray water containing foam. “The foam acts as a surfactant allowing the water to be more slippery and wet,” says Koshowski. The fire happened at the railway tracks at the Sutherland Drive Park. “There was a grass fire, it looks like someone may have done some burning but it is hard to say. We extinguished it with some backpacks and water, it went out pretty fast.”(Bottom)

Top Left: A pile of burning copper sits amongst the grass along railway tracks at the Sutherland Drive Park. There were no definitive answers to whether or not the burning copper was the origin of the fire but....





Right: teven Duetta with the Kingston Fire and Rescue kicks around some smoldering copper wire while spraying it with water containing foam