{"id":803515,"date":"2026-07-15T13:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803515\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:08:19","slug":"bell-island-man-ticketed-for-violating-provincial-fire-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803515\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell Island Man Ticketed for Violating Provincial Fire Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/camp-fire-stock-photo.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Bell Island Man Ticketed for Violating Provincial Fire Ban\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>RCMP has ticketed a man on Bell Island for violating the province-wide fire ban. <\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the home on Dobbins Road just after 4 p.m. last Friday and found an unattended wood-burning fire in the backyard. <\/p>\n<p>Crews quickly extinguished the blaze. <\/p>\n<p>The next day, the 72-year-old homeowner was located by police who then issued him a ticket. <\/p>\n<p>The minimum fine for violating the fire ban is $50,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) RCMP has ticketed a man on Bell Island for violating the province-wide fire ban. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,269876,44,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,41,39,42,40,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-803515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}