A pair of fires on Monday night and Tuesday morning kept the Shawville-Clarendon Fire Department busy.

On Monday night (May 11), crews were called to a home on rue Argue at around 10:45 p.m., and it was fully involved when they arrived.  

Chief Lee Laframboise said that there were two tenants in the home, as well as the owner, who all made it out safely.

“Smoke alarms saved those people there for sure,” he said. 

The department was on scene with around 16 firefighters until the early hours of the morning. He said the cause of the blaze has yet to be determined. 

Not long after the crews returned home from fighting the house fire, they were called out again at around 6:40 a.m. Tuesday morning for a tractor fire on the Sand Bay Road, near the intersection with Fourth Line. 

Laframboise said that a tractor towing a planter caught fire, and firefighters responded with two tankers and a pumper truck.

He said they were on scene for around two and half hours putting out that fire, which destroyed the tractor and damaged some sections of the planter.