Wildfires threaten Kawartha Lakes area, a summer sanctuary for Toronto cottagers | Unpublished
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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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