412 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 24, 1993

Cool weather the cause

Fires dampened —

CooL ‘WEATHER this year

“nelpyd reduce the numbers of

fites ard costs below average.
“Provincial duty officer Ross
Wilde said,‘*Cool temperatures,
early. detection and aggressive
fire, fighling, helped limit: wild-

‘fires to, 4,622 heclares, well “be: . =
cast side. “OF the’ Kalum™ past ~~

Leanto:Creck, it was onc and.a -

low the 35,000 hectare average,’
The. regional | mumbers in the
Kalum forest district followed the
provincial t trend...
“Tt .was a relalively quite fire

season in comparison to:the aver- —
‘age,’”-said Kalum forest district

official Joe Katasonotf.

2 Out-of the: 43 di sirict fires this .

year, ‘29 were man caused and 14

were. caused by lightning strikes.
The number of man caused fires

this year was the same, as in 1992.
Although considered low, the

number fires is a worry because
they are ~ prevenlable, said
Katasonoff.
“We are hoping to step up the
fire prevention campaign,” he
said. . :
“We had no significant large
fires, The largest onc was on the

half -heclares and caused. by
mushroom pickers or other
people.

“Six fires were caused by
mushroom pickers in the district
this year.

The number of fires cauisod by

lightning is down There were 23
‘Fires in 1992 caused by lightning

and only 14 Fires this year. .
The total number of fircs was

down 11 over last year and was

considerably lower. than the len
year average of 73 blazes, :
‘The two primary look outs were
Manned this year. They are the
the Kit look-out in the Kitimat
Vailcy, and’ the. Thornhill look-
out atop Thornhill Mountain.
During the periods of extreme

‘fire Conditions the Beaver Bluff ~

lookout up the West Kalum Road.

A three-man attack crew was
stationed in Terrace from April
through to September.

During lower fire hazards peri-
ods a provincial crew called the
Haisla Firebirds is available to
the Kalum Forest District.

This is a 20-man crew stationed
out of Terrace and is one out of

cight units on standby throughout -
the province during the fire sea-

son.

City strikes deal to lease -
out Emerson parking spots |

THE CITY is leasing 40
downtown parking spaces to a
private company. ;

~The spaces are~ located on the

' stretch of Emerson between Park ~

and Davis and bounded on one
side by Lower Little Park.
City.clerk Bob Hallsor ‘said the

deal will provide: the. city with |

$215 a month for the next year.

‘The money goes into a special
account set up by the city to help
finance new parking lots.

“There’s maybe $10,000 in it
—not an awful lot,”" said Hallsor
of the special account.

The deal — with Nash. Invest-
ments, a company connected with
Skeena Broadcasters :—~ follows

" established city policy for the 84
spots along that stretch’ of Emer- -
- $on, he said.

That policy permits: ‘the city to
-lease- parking -spaces should a
company need sufficient off strect
parking to meet city by-law To
quirements. One condition is that
the spaces be available within

750 feet of the development.
This occurred when Nash added
‘ office space to its building on the

comer of Lazelle and Emerson,
Hallsor said,

“We've leased out spaces there
for the past 15 years,” said
Haitsor of the Emerson location.

He did add that the Emerson

location contains the only parking
spaces the city has for lease.

The city policy also restricts to
50 per cent the number of spaces
that can be leased out at any one
location.

There are 84 or so spaces in the
Emerson location, making the
maximum number 42 that can be
lease out.

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