Ponteix Fire/Rescue
100 Center St S0N 1Z0 Ponteix, SK, Canada

Stay safe Unity fire dept

Are you a farmer in Teutopolis Fire Protection District who has put up hay within the last few weeks? If so, have or do you check the bales daily, if not hourly... if they were put up wet? Today we went to a location where the property owner had someone come out to their farm and used a temperature probe to check bales. They got a reading of 180 degrees, but couldn’t visually see any smoke or fire. They began moving bales out of the barn and called the fire department. We stood by while they moved bales in case the hot bales ignited once they got enough oxygen. Luckily none caught fire, but were very hot to the touch. We rarely get to see this side of a hay bale fire as it’s normally on fire when we get called. Pictures show the state that the bales were at and how close the property owner came to losing hundreds of hay bales and a barn.