A reception
centre helped
serve 6,000

TERRACE FIRE chief
Randy Smith has had an
up close and personal look
al the devastation caused
by the fires burning near
Kamloops.

Smith spent last week
working at the Provincial
Regional Emergency Op-
erations Centre (PREOC)
in Kamloops.

The support centre is
staffed by people through-
out the province with
training in emergency dis-
aster response.

Smith is no stranger to
emergency relief work.

Through the Canadian
Red Cross he’s helped
with hurricane’ responses
and in October 2001
worked at a respite centre
at Ground Zero in New
York after the September
ll, 2001 attacks on thal
city.

This time Smith was
called out under the aus-
pices of the Provincial
Emergency Program be-
cause he’s one of five
qualified mobile support
team members in.the
north.

In Kamloops, Smith
was responsible for every-
thing from working at the
reception centre for dis-
placed families to helping
coordinate @ response plan
for 24, 48 and 72 hours
ahead.

B2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 13, 2003

Local fire chief in middle —
of Kamloops fire battle

He said 6,000 displaced
people were registered at
the reception centre — peo-
ple who have lost homes
and businesses and people
whe don’t know the status
of their homes,

“It’s a natural disaster,
it’s the same when we
were dealing with hurri-
canes, there’s just a huge
sense of loss and dishelief
and it just happens so
fast,” he said.

“[ was listening to a
fella today and he didn’t
really think it was going to
happen to him - it always
happens to somebody else
in the news,”

The fires are the worst
the province has seen in

“It?s a natural
disaster. It’s the
same when we
were dealing with
hurricanes.
There’s a huge
sense of loss and
disbelief and it just
happens so fast.”

50 years.

“There’s still a fot of
summer left here and these
conditions are not getting
a lot better,” he said.

Smith experienced first
hand the thick smoke that
blankets the skies when
the wind changes -
something that can
seriously affect seniors and
people with respiratory
problems.

JEPTHA BALL, left, Bob Stair, and Paul Doyle, planners with the Provincial Re-
gional Emergency Operations Centre in Kamloops, check messages, and pore
over maps they hope can be filed to make room for the fresh data that comes
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“The smoke conditions
are pretty horrendous for
the . firefighters,” Smith
said.

Forest service firefight-
ers have been joined by
fire departments from
throughout the province
and a contingent of Cana-
dian soldiers stationed in
Edmonton have also been

called in to help in the ef-
fort.

“Again it’s such a large
fire here and the coordina-
tion with the office of the
fire commission and the
forest service has been in-
credible I haven’t seen
that with other fires before
and .it’s really good to
see,” he said.

Smith was scheduled to
return to Terrace last Sun-
day.

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