Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Sam Riches
Publication Date: August 14, 2025 - 16:39
Wildfires threaten Kawartha Lakes area, a summer sanctuary for Toronto cottagers
August 14, 2025
After swimming with his family at Sandy Beach in the Ontario town of Buckhorn on the weekend, Patrick Porzuczek was driving north when the sky overhead began to rumble.
A plane was targeting a wildfire, named HAL019, near Burnt River in Kawartha Lakes, about two hours north of Toronto in Ontario’s cottage country.
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