Smoke rises from hogpile at  Lakeland Mills this morning – photo 250News

Prince George, BC –  Three calls kept the Prince George Fire Rescue Department  busy over the past  24 hours.

Last evening  got off to a hot start with a car fire on Chestnut Drive in the north end of the City.  No one injured.  The vehicle was destroyed, but  the fire did not cause any damage to neighbouring  buildings.

Then around 9 last night,  a fire was reported at the new Northland Dodge  facility on RecPlace Drive.  That fire was doused by the sprinkler system  in the paint shop area .  The cause and damage estimate are not  yet available.

Then around 5:30 this morning,  crews were sent to the Lakeland Mills site to  handle a  fire that  had broken out in the  hog pile  on the property.  Fires  in piles of organic material are not  new,  as  the decaying materials create heat.  This is the second  organic compound fire  in Prince George  this year,  as  there was a  similar  situation at the Foothills landfill earlier this year  in a compost  pile.

The activity  came  off the heels of a  fire yesterday  at the PG Chateau retirement  complex off Tabor Boulevard.   A recliner in one of the suites had caught fire,  three people were sent to hospital  for treatment of smoke inhalation.