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Timmins 9 now being held: MNR

Bob McIntyre
By Bob McIntyre
There’s positive news from Timmins 9, the two-week-old forest fire south of Timmins and west of Gogama.
The MNR now considers it “being held” and people can return to the Mattagami First Nation starting at 10:00am Monday. About 160 of the community’s 200 people evacuated to Barrie on June 3rd.
The fire is 7 km west of the First Nation.
Bob McIntyre
Bob McIntyre
News Director at the cluster of Vista radio stations that has Country 93.1 Timmins and Moose FM in Iroquois Falls, Cochrane, Kapuskasing and Hearst, as well as MyTimminsNow.com, MyCochraneNow.com and MyKapHearstNow.com . Proud to be born and raised in this area and glad to be home since 2018, after 18 years away.

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