Crews Put Out Unattended Campfire Monday

An unattended campfire burned a 200-by-100-foot area of Norway Point on Lower Saranac Lake Monday afternoon, before Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department firefighters boated in to put out the wildland blaze. According to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, SLVFD Chief Michael Knapp said somebody used a fire pit there to cook a meal with charcoal. But they left without extinguishing the fire and it spread outside of the pit, catching the woods on fire.