The Terrace Fire Department
seems to be looking better every
day. Over the last few months,
firefighters have spruced up the
upstairs offices and living quarters
with fresh paint and carpet. A

-"modern". phone system was
. instalfed last week, replacing the

old rotary dial telephones, some-
thing most offices threw out years
ago. 7

Also last week, a radio-telephone
communications upgrade will help
to make the department more

. effective. The system will allow
incoming calls to be answered

from fire trucks or portables. This .
- factor in the deterioration of the

is an important consideration. Only

one firefighter mans the hall. at

night and in the past this has
meant a gap of about three minutes
during which the emergency
phones were unmanned, the time it
took for another firefighter to
come in and cover the firehall. If
there was a second fire during that

"Fire department

slowly tuning up

three minutes, there was no one

tliere to answer the phone. Now, —

firefighters driving to. the firehall
or to an emergency can answer the
phone. If it’s a second fire, they
can operate the paging system to
call out a second crew of fire-
fighters.

Another fire department upgrade
is under discussion. Adding more
bays to the firehall has been tossed
around for a number of years. Of
primary concern has been the
rescue 01 vehicle, which has to be
kept outside due to a tack of
indoor space. This is said to be a

vehicle. In the past little has been
done to correct the situation, but
now city council is in motion.

-They have asked their Internal

Review Committee to appoint a
special committee to review the
overall building requirements for
the housing of emergency vehicles.

Rural rescue a matter

Many years ago ambulances in
B.C. were operated by local fire
departments or, in larger centres,
private companies. The province
decided there was a serious lack of
coordination in this system, par-
ticularly where an emergency was
in a rural area part way between
two serviced areas.

So the province commandeered
the ambulance service and gave it
a name of their own. As a part of
that move, they built a central

Request for Public Involvement for
the Kalum South Resource Management Plan

The Ministry of Forests would like to know the public’s opinion on matters of resource
management planning. [f you are interested, please fill out the following questionnaire, and/or

contact the undersigned.

1.What are the present and future recreational values on local forest land?

dispatch centre in Kamloops which
serves the bulk of the province

outside the lower mainland,

Will the same thing happen to
fire department rescue vehicles?
The Regional District of Kitimat-
Stikine has prepared a resolution to
be presented at this fall’s Union of
B.C. Municipalities annual general
meeting that seems to suggest
that’s exactly what should happen.

The resolution calls for "a prov-
incial rescue and protection service

2.Do you feel the level of timber harvesting is appropriate?

3.What are the fish and wildlife values that you would like to see managed?
4.How do you see the integration of the many values of our forest resource?

5,How do you see the relationship between resource use, environmental compatibility, and the

economic well-being of the area?

6.What other resource use issues do you consider important for the Kalum South area?

pace

New communications equipment is going to make the Terrace Fire Department more efficient,

and thanks to firefighter Jim Stainton (left), the fire hall's resident radio technichan, and AGK
Communications technican Doug Andersen, the equipment was installed last week.

of concern

for vehicular accidents" and calls -

‘for uniform policy and standards,
equitable access to services, and
coordination with existing emerg-
ency and rescue services. In mak-
ing the resolution, the regional
district points out that "no single

agency has responsibility for

essential rescue and protection
services related to vehicular acci-
dents and emergencies", and, "the
need for these services most fre-
quently occurs outside municipal
and fire protection boundaries".

Police costs set

B.C, and the federal government have agreed to leave the old
cost-sharing formula for policing as it is while they negotiate a new
one. That means the city of Terrace gets at the least a one-year
reprieve on cost increases that could have amounted to $250,000.

The 10-year contract between the federal Solicitor General and the
B.C. government covering the cost of RCMP services to municipal-
ities and rural areas in the province expired in March. The federal
government's opening position in negotiations for the new contract
sought to bring down their part of the cost-sharing formula. The
city of Terrace faced a budget dilemma eatiier this month, with
council not knowing what cost to assign policing in the city for the
coming year. . TY

City administrator Bob Hallsor said council was. prepated to draw =
money if necessary out of the municipal treasury’s surplus. That
stands at about $235,000, he said. ~

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rossing

To get the answers to these and many more questions, the Ministry of Forests, British
Columbia Environment, and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans have embarked on the
KALUM SOUTH RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN in the area outlined on the attached
map.
| Just recently some ninety organizations were invited to participate. If you are a member of
some organization and were not contacted, or a member of the general public and would like
to get involved, we would appreciate hearing from you. For more information, please write
| or phone;
i Glenn Smith, Planner or Brad Pollard, Planning Assistant at the:

Ministry of Forests,
i Room 200 - 5220 Keith Ave.,
| Terrace, B. C.
phone 638-3290.

AM KITIMAT:
KY) FOREST

Planning Area DS SSN ;

Timber Supply Area

Provinelal Forest
Tree Form Ucence

Recreation Area
Ecological Reserve

Munlelpal Boundary

Kalum South
Resource
Management
Plan

YOUR INPUT AND PARTICIPATION ARE IMPORTANT TO, THE PLANNING
PROCESS AND FUTURE OF OUR LOCAL FOREST RESOURCES,

Province of
British Cotumbla

Ministry
of Forests