The battle came to an end around 9 p.m. on Monday, July 10, nearly 24 hours after first responders arrived.
"Everything went extremely well," said Jeremy Becker, South Huron Fire Chief. "We brought in our mutual aid partners from everywhere around us."
The departments that joined on scene were Bayfield, Hensall, Zurich, Dashwood, Brucefield, Seaforth, Grand Bend, Granton, Lucan Biddulph, Ailsa Craig, and Mitchell. South Huron was on scene since 10:30 p.m. July 9.
"The guys were getting fairly tired and needed to be spelled off," Becker said. "We're thankful that they had manpower available to do that."
Through the night on July 10, crews remained on scene to keep an eye on hot spots. Becker added they put four loads of water on it to keep anymore potential ignitions at bay. Firefighters will continue to monitor it over the next few days in collaboration with the property owner.
"I was doing some calculations this morning," Becker said. "We're probably in excess of two million litres now. Everybody's got different sized trucks. Some of the trucks hauled almost 100 loads of water over the 24-hour period."
