Municipality of Machin Ontario

08/31/2026

Reminder to all drivers in Machin,
School kids and buses are on the roads again starting Tuesday Sept 1

08/26/2026

08/20/2026

Updated - Not FINAL

08/17/2026

Our Eagle River Recreation Centre is available for rent!! Please call the municipal office at 807-227-2633 if you'd like to book or have any questions about the facility!

08/14/2026

Machin Fire, and all of our neighbouring fire departments are volunteer departments. This means that the fire halls are not manned with firefighters ready to respond directly to an emergency when a 911 call comes through. Information regarding an emergency is relayed to members via a paging system.

When a 911 call is made, the communication centre takes down the specific information regarding the nature of the emergency and sends out a page to the appropriate fire department with the basic information about the call and the location. Firefighters then respond from home, work or wherever in the community they might be to the fire hall, change into their gear and respond in the appropriate emergency vehicle(s) for situation.

This means that firefighters are using their personal vehicles to get to the fire hall as quickly and safely as possible. To help facilitate this the Ontario Highway Traffic Act authorizes the use of green flashing lights for volunteer firefighters and advises drivers to yield the right of way the same as one would for an Ambulance, Fire Truck or Police vehicle with it's red lights flashing.

For life threatening medical emergencies and the fast developing nature of fires, time is critical for responding. If you see a vehicle with a green flashing light, or one that has a firefighter plate and has hazard lights activated, please pull over and stop to prevent delaying them from getting to the fire hall and responding to the emergency.