Huge congratulations to the Magnetawan Fire Station for defending their title and winning the 2025 Southeast Almaguin Firefighters Challenge at this year’s Heritage Festival! 🏆💪 That’s two years in a row of back-to-back wins!

Under the fearless leadership of Fire Chief Derek Young, the Magnetawan crew once again blazed past the competition — and didn’t even break a sweat (okay, maybe a little).

🔥 Props to the competition! You all brought the heat:
🥈 Burk’s Falls – Team Gold
💙 Kearney – Team Blue
🟧 Perry – Team Orange
💚 McMurrich/Monteith – Team Green

It was a showdown of strength, strategy, and slightly scorched egos — but all in good fun!

🎁 A HUGE thank you to:

• Circling Hawks for gifting a vintage metal firetruck décor piece to Fire Chief Derek Young — now proudly displayed somewhere between his desk and his well-deserved pride.🚒😉
• Rickward’s Polaris for donating a generator to keep the champions powered up and ready for 2026 🔌⚡

To all the teams: You were smokin’ — but in the best way possible.

Every firefighter from all 5 participating departments received a custom-designed firefighter coin  to commemorate this year’s challenge — a coin designed by Magnetawan Fire Station  as part of their 2024 victory! A one-of-a-kind keepsake, just like the teams who earned it. 🪙🔥