Firefighters and hamlet workers using an excavator battle a fire in Pangnirtung’s dump over the weekend. The blaze that burned for two and a half days was extinguished on Sunday morning. (Photo courtesy of Eric Lawlor)
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After nearly two and a half days of burning, Pangnirtung’s dump fire has been extinguished, the hamlet’s mayor Eric Lawlor told Nunatsiaq News Monday. The blaze was extinguished Sunday morning, he said.
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