Chapleau District Sees 1st Wildfire of Season

The Chapleau area's seen its first forest fire of the season.

Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources says "Chapleau 1" was reported Monday, located about 2 kilometres southeast of Jones Landing and east of Highway 17, though the fire was reported out by late that afternoon, before growing beyond a tenth of a hectare in size.

Wildland fire season officially began April 1st.