‘ A12- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 10, 2005 Local fire crews spread out _ BY KAT LEE NORTHWEST FIGHTERS have been sent all over Canada and the rest of the province to help battle "forest fires. The 20-person. unit crew based - out of Kitimat left July.31 for Spences Bridge, approximately 40km_ north of Lytton, after-a large fire started there July 29. Terrace’s forest protec- , tion officer, Tony Falco, also - left for Spences Bridge to be , part of the fire management . team: there,‘ says Charlene Wiles, the. information of- ficer for the Northwest Fire - Centre in Smithers.. One hundred ‘and sixty B.C. firefighters are at Spen- ces Bridge trying to put out _ the: uncontained :3, 000- plus: hectare fire. Unit. crews from Burns :.. Lake and Houston are on _ Standby. Although the. fire danger, rating for the area is low. to « ‘moderate. bécause of recent — ° cool wet weather conditions, e oe. Terrace’s two initial attack crews have been busy. A three-person initial at- tack crew from the Terrace base left for Thunder Bay July 26 after a request for ~ help was received July 25. eed Jeremy Lafontane, Marc Page, and Tyler Elwood will help with the fire situation as long as they,.é are needed there. ' _ The maximum deploy- ment time is 19 days, but they are. expected to return before then. An: initial attack crew | from Dease Lake also went to Thunder Bay while one unit crew from Hazelton and one unit crew from Telkwa went to Timmins i in northern Ontario, In’ total, five 20- -person -unit crews, 10 three-person _initial attack crews and a a new lightning-caused fires: - few support staff from all ‘over.B.C. were deployed to Ontario after the request.for . help was received. “There’s been a.lot of ummer weat Ver. -hot'dry weather that has left the province with a high to extreme fire danger rating. - ~ Charlene Wiles there,” said Wiles. » She, said the’ province is “anticipating , More requests for assistance. : . "The crews were briefed on the fire situation and dis- tributed as needed around — the region. Ontario has had a spell of. Fire situations in Ontario to battle blazes elsewhere | and B.C. will be monitored to see where assistance may be needed. All B.C. fire crews previ- ously helping in’the light- ning-caused fires in Quebec in mid-July returned to their bases July 29. Terrace’s initial attack crew was among the north- west’s five initial . attack crews and the two unit crews - who returned from Quebec. : Steve Westby, the for- est protection officer for the Skeena zone, also, returned from Quebec after being sent out as an incident com- mander July 11. ° There is the possibil-. ity that Terrace’s remaining initial attack crew could:be asked to help with the fire in Spences Bridge, but Wiles said that depends on the number of crews needed and weather conditions there. Provincial governments ’ have long standing arrange- ments to lend each other fire- fighters and other resources when and where needed. [ Natalie Webber has been with Terrace & [| . District Credit- Union for 11 years. She is the [| _ | Administrative Assistant to the Loan Department. F Natalie’s duties include processin | providing financial advice to mem "call Natalie with any loan inquiries.and she will j= be happy t fo assist you. loans and ers. Please — Terrace & District ; e Credit Union 4650 Lazelle Avenue, Terrace * 635-7282 ©THE FIRS full month’ of summer | brought anything but summer. weather to Terrace. “,, - Cool, wet and windy is how, Envi- ronment Canada described the Terrace _ weather f for July. ‘An indication ‘of. the coolness‘ ex- perienced « over the month was that the warmest day — 25.5 C: on July 11 — was « the second coolest high for the month M ‘July 11, incidentally, also saw the coolest temperature of the month — morning reading of 8.5 C. 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