{"id":9648,"date":"2026-01-13T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=9648"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:36:57","slug":"emergency-crews-rush-to-mill-village-after-reports-of-flares-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2026\/01\/13\/emergency-crews-rush-to-mill-village-after-reports-of-flares-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Air, ground patrols find no plane crash as crews rush to Mill Village after reports of flares, smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8246\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8246\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rcmpsnow-1024x870.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rcmpsnow-1024x870.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rcmpsnow-768x652.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rcmpsnow.jpg 1527w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCMP and other emergency crews are on the scene of a possible plane crash near Mill Village. (RCMP)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>UPDATED 5:35 P.M.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews rushed to the scene of a possible plane crash on Tuesday afternoon near Mill Village.<\/p>\n<p>But after extensive air and ground patrols of the area, &#8220;neither RCMP nor (search and rescue crews) observed evidence of a plane crash, a plane in distress, or a situation that required emergency response,&#8221; according to a statement from Nova Scotia RCMP on Tuesday just before 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Queens District RCMP received several calls at about 1:15 p.m. of emergency flares near Mill Village. One caller said they saw a plane in distress in addition to the flares, the RCMP said.<\/p>\n<p>The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax deployed a CH149 Cormorant helicopter and a CC295 Kingfisher airplane as part of the search. Queens RCMP officers searched on the ground through rural areas and worked with drone operators as part of the search.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters and RCMP rushed to an area off Highway 103 just before 2 p.m. after reports that flares and smoke could be seen.<\/p>\n<p>The RCMP thanked members of the public who called 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED 5:35 P.M. Emergency crews rushed to the scene of a possible plane crash on Tuesday afternoon near Mill Village. But after extensive air and ground patrols of the area, &#8220;neither RCMP nor (search and rescue crews) observed evidence of a plane crash, a plane in distress, or a situation that required emergency response,&#8221; according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[2513,124,177,924],"class_list":["post-9648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-emergency","tag-firefighters","tag-highway-103","tag-mill-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9648"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9660,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648\/revisions\/9660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}