Man Ordered to Pay for Cost of Putting Out Fire

A Southern Ontario man has been ordered to pay $3,500 for starting a fire that spread into the surrounding woods back in May.
Court heard that Matthew Major of Stoney Creek started a fire to burn boxes of paper in a grassy area in Kenora.
Major didn’t have a day burning permit and he left the fire unattended and went into town.
The fire spread into a wooded area and sparked a 0.5-hectare forest fire.
City fire crews and the Ministry of Natural Resources were forced to extinguish the blaze.