Page 2, The Herald, Friday, August 8 100 a Tired and worn out! YELLOWENIFE, NWT. (CP) — Firefighters from: Ontario and the Yukon ‘are working with weary crews who are “tired, discouraged - and worn out,” after battling huge blazes in the Nothwest . Territories for almost four months. “Qur men ... have been fighting fires continuously since April 15,” “Ralph Checkley, head of N.W.T. fire control, said Thursday. The date is a full month: earlier than the fire season * normally starts in the North. Checkley was forced to borrow men from British Columbia and equipment from B.C, and Alberta, Now, with the addition of 103 “Ontario: and Yukon flie- s, there are nearly 400 men fighting the big fires be-. _tween Hay River and Fort ° “Simpson ‘in the Great Slave ; ’ Lake area: The largest, Hay River 8, covers 182,930 hectares. (457,525 acres) and hes been -burning on both sides of the Highway,. Mackenzie . causing ‘its closure several times this. summer. Five area communities were placed on evacuation alert within recent months. . Although Checkley sald no communities ate currently threatened, the 1980 fire, season is approaching the record two million hectares burned last year. iofhis Is the third year at borderline drought in the - area; and unless 'we get toa. a fire right away, we can't hold it,"Checkley said. His crews are atretched 50 thinly that some fires in low-- priority areas have simply been left to burn. One of: ‘them has been burning since. May — another had a. fire - front a8 kilometres long, befdre crews could be spared to fight'it, = =: The long dry season is aloo but ‘‘at least 2S per cent are cor min’ ‘tenance ee since’ before. operations. | hllazes beginning to take its toll on -equipment.. Four: water bombers and 22 helicopters : ‘are in the aerial fleet’ - fighting the flames, but stantly out: of action ire the fire season started, and . the heavy “use. Is. causing breakdowns, . Two° “helicapters: “have crashed: during firefighting ” With at ‘Yeast B tionth ett in . ‘the ‘fire. have dy fought 60 more: n lgat year,*<: "Men and equipment from’ around the Northwest Terri-. tories -have. been drawn to. bolgter the'beleaguered Hay:’ River : and’ F regions: ge® Saturday, August 16 Edmonton Northlands Park - ‘THE MOST EXCITING EVENT IN CANADIAN RACING! ~ $50,000-Added Purse BIG MILLER AL JARREAU CHICK COREA OSCAR PETERSON TOMMY BANKS BIG BAND @ THE Ci OF monton, JAZZ CITY, TICKETS. :”” OFFICE AND ALL BASS RECEIVE TICKETS BY MAIL, WRITE: EDMONTON, ALBERTA, OR CALL MIKE'S TICKET OFFICE . AT (ay: BOL. “THESE GREATS AND MORE! SUNDAY, AUGUST 17 TO SUNDAY, AUGUST 24. ARE AVAILABLE AT MIKE'S. TICKET - QUTLETSAN EDMONTON. TO) o> JAZZ CITY; BOX 2400; ie Alberta Toth Anniversary Celebrations August 27 'to- September 1 1, Alberta 75 Air Show September 6.. 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The jetliner Was carrying | 18 crew. members and 154 Romanian fishermen due. to relieve crews aboard. fishing . vessels in the Atlantic when - it) plunged: into the sea Thursday, It was approaching ‘the " alrport at Nouadhibou, Mau-’ " ritania’s principal port, with. po sign the pilot had made a ~ ‘ distress signal; the official Mauritanian | news _Aiency, said. However, an official of the French airline UTA said that . for unexplained reasons the . plane dipped to the aie on "approach. oe The plane went down five 7 kilometres . short of -the _punway and about 300 meires ° from the coast, The weather -was described as acceptable, with a normal wind and good visibility.” : "A Mauritanian navy vessel avoid oncoming car SWIFT CURRENT, Sask, (CP) — " Bowel shouted a warning to passengers and steered io the he shoulder of the high-. way, but could not avold a crash'with an oncoming ear. Beach, of “Winnipeg, . was ‘ne of 22 CP’ Rail workers killed ina three-vehicle: road accident May 28. ; Witnesses told a coroner's . . inquest Thursday Beach had pulled onto the shoulder when a black 1965 Chryaler : _ driven by Alfred Booker, 59 ot H Hamilton collided with the Survivor Angus Moores of ’ Placentia Bay, Nfld., said he saw .the car on the wrotig. side of the road and knew it ‘was going to hit the bus, The next thing he remembered -Bus drivef Michael. “the. collision, "Saskatchewan city. ” was ‘being pulled ftom the ‘shattered bus., Gerald: Synard, : ‘also of Placentia: ‘Bay, said he was - ‘sitting next: to Moores and: “had | stood “upto pass .a. cigarette to a friend when he - saw the appreaching car. His arm still in a-cast, Sy- hard told the inquest the bus flopped over on its side after and, as mien were tossed about inside the sliding vehicle, a tanker truck hit It and ripped oft its - Several victims ‘Were ‘badly burned when the truck burst: into’ flames after the collision, 32 kilometres west . of — this : southwestern was - worst. The - accident Saskatchewan’ 8 : transportation disaster since . 1984 when an air crash near Moose Jaw claimed 37 lives. Moores and Synard were two of eight survivors on the bus, Eleven of the dead were from Newfoundland, nine from Manitoba and one each from Ontario and Nova, ‘Scotia, | * Bob Shaw of Nanton, Alta., driver of the truck that collided with the bus, Rolf Fischer of Calgary, who pulled Shaw from flaming wreck, and other witnesses also told their stories . Thursday to Dr. J. Stewart MacMillan, chief Saskat- chewan coroner,.and the gix- mah inquest jury. 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He put the man into his pickup truck and tuned *"~) /on the heater so he wouldn't, go Into shock: “Carl Shiels, director of , highway safety. programs iwith the Saskatchewan . Highway Traffic Board, told the lnquest injuries might have been less severe had the bus been equipped with seat belts, a small man. and two trawelers rusted: a: the scene and'plucked ucked ome of the -survivers from; ihe water, while others | gaore,” the “UTA: oe * said. At that time, two thirds of the fuselage of the jetliner —- ‘a three-engined, ‘Soviet: made Tupolev 14 — was intact above the water, he, said, Shortly afterward: the’ craft broke up and sank, :Nelther Shaw nor Fischer “|: metre behind Shaw, said he - ‘| Jasper, Alta, BLUE RIVER, B.C.. (CP) —'A Via, Rail supercontinental ‘ passenger train was derpiled near Blue River, BC,, early today: ; “The train was. carrying 360 people but Bill Dewan, - a spokesman = for Canadian National Railways, said only one passenger - Was ap- parently injured. “fT The derailment hap- pened about 11 kilometres east: of this mountain community, 120 kilo- metres southwest of Cause of: the aceldent wasn't immediately known, Dewan said. The lone injury in- volved a broken | arm, 1 be, sail. Dewan sald the ‘trai was eastbound from Vancouver when the derailment occured about 3:55 a.m. MDT. 'The first 13 cars in the 19-car train went off the tracks but none overturned, he ‘added. Aspecial train was sent Jasper,. Alta, to pick -up the passengers and take then to Jasper, Dewan 5 He said it is ‘balleved about half of the passengers were going ‘to Jasper in any event and those that were not will be transported to Edmonton. Dewan said the line is not expected to be clear before Saturday. . Via Rail is a- Crown. corporation responsiblé for all passenger. rail [ services in Canada.