Подозрительный пожар на свалке в Ранкин-Инлете вынудил пожарных тушить огонь песком

Rankin Inlet fire department battles 'suspicious' blaze at town's dump Nunavut hamlet's fire chief says crews will try to bury flames with sand and gravel Monday A fire at the dump in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, is pushing the hamlet's fire department to the limit. The fire broke out late Saturday and crews had it nearly put out when a second fire broke out early Sunday morning, said fire chief Mark Wyatt. "The entire dump was burned and a lot of it is still on fire," Wyatt said Monday. "So today the plan is to put about 100 dump trucks full of gravel and sand and try and spread that over the whole dump." Drone footage taken from above the site Sunday shows a large fire generating a plume of smoke that's drifting over the hamlet. Wyatt also said the fire is putting a strain on Rankin Inlet's fire department. There's no utilidor to pipe water to the dump, so crews are relying one of the hamlet's water trucks to keep the fire trucks supplied and that means firefighters can't put a continuous stream of water on the flames. "The entire dump is on fire and our department is fairly small," he said. "We have two fire trucks. We had 14 people responding both days. It's draining on the fire department." Wyatt said the cause of both fires is under investigation, but he described them as "suspicious." "It's very suspicious on where the fire started up the next day," he said. "It was in a completely other part of the dump." The fire comes just days after one at the Iqaluit dump closed roads in the area. That fire has since been extinguished. With files from Mah Noor Mubarik