Illegal campfire causes Lily Pond fire

Fire Service helicopter helps extinguish it

- LESLIE LANDRIGAN

DEER ISLE—An escaped campfire in the woods by the Lily Pond was the apparent cause of a brush fire that took firefighters and the Forest Service seven hours to extinguish on May 28, according to Deer Isle Fire Chief Brent Morey. The next day more fires broke out in the same place, and firefighters put those out, too, Morey said in a phone interview.

A helicopter dumped 14 loads of water on the flames after Morey called the Maine Fire Service for assistance, he said.