Amanda Hale and her family are back in their home southeast of Ompah after being evacuated on Sunday evening when a wildfire sparked and grew out of control on their property in North Frontenac Township.

That fire is under control, but still not out, North Frontenac’s mayor, Gerry Lichty, said in an interview on Thursday.

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Hale and her two sons, as well as two members of her extended family, got the call that they could return home late Tuesday night.

On Wednesday morning, she and her family packed up the motel room that they had been provided by the township, and got a first look at their property after firefighters had spent days keeping their home and the homes of others in the area from burning.

“It’s very surreal,” Hale told the Whig-Standard on Thursday morni

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