d \ 730. Cash _ LOCAL forest firefighter Mark Page clears fallen trees from a path c on Onion Lake . while his unit crew is on Standby. . KAT LEE PHOTO - Firefighters working | _ through slow season By KAT LEE | THERE MAY be. no active forest fires in the Terrace area; but that doesn’t mean firefighters are sitting around. Unit crews and forest protection officers -are all over the region and elsewhere helping out other fire crews. - “There’s been times when we’ ve all been. gone,” said Steve Westby, forest protection officer for the Skeena zone, last week. Westby said that during wet weather peri- ,ods here, crews will go around the province, or even the country, to help’ where they’re most needed. s The 20-person. unit. crew. stationed in Kitimat has been fighting the fire south of Vanderhoof since May 29. Forest protection officer Kaz Kopec fol- lowed the crew the next day to be the branch director of the Vanderhoof fire. —_ Forest protection officers Tony. Falcao and Rich Forget-are in Fort Nelson helping a with fire management for the numerous fires in that area. Despite the crew members that are spread throughout the province, there are still fire-’ fighters in the ‘area to'make sure the Skeena region is protected. -. “We still. have pockets of dry condi-. _tions,” Westby said, citing areas around the " Nass Valley. One three-person unit crew is on stand- by, doing things like equipment checks and — nearby site maintenance to keep busy. . They have also participated in National. Fi Forest Week, teaching Grade 5 students in : the area about fire prevention. 3 “We usually don’t let them get too far i in’ case there’s a fire call,” Westby said. ; The other three-person unit crew is seit around the Skeena area to do project work. 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