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Hydro station on fire near Minden

Pamela Vanmeer
By Pamela Vanmeer

MINDEN-People that live in the area of a hydro station on County Road 21 between Minden and Haliburton are being evacuated after a large fire.

Robertson Road and Caribou Lake Road are the main areas being evacuated after the hydro station County Road 21 caught fire. Officials say more than 20,000 people and businesses are now without power.

There are reports the fire was started by lightning but that is not confirmed. There’s no word on injuries.

 

 

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Pamela VanMeer is a two time winner of the prestigious Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) Award. Her investigative reports on abuse in Long Term Care Homes garnered international attention for the issue and won the Ron Laidlaw Award. She is a former reporter and anchor at CHEX News, now Global Peterborough and helped launch the New CHEX Daily, a daily half hour talk show. While at CHCH News in Hamilton she covered some of the biggest news stories of the day.

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