Blaze
bigger
than
wanted

FIRE HAZARDS may be
low to moderate around
Terrace last week, but that
doesn’t mean local forest
service firefighters weren’t
busy.

Crews battled a .5 hec-
tare lightning strike at Par-
rott Lake, south of Houston
and a vehicle fire on Hud-
son Bay Mountain near
Smithers.

A 20-person crew from
Kitimat was also sent to
Fort St. John to cut a fire
guard around a 40 hectare
blaze,

That fire -—about 28
miles northeast of Fort St.
John — was controlled large-
ly by cold wet weather early
last week.

By far the largest fire -
in the Spatsizi Wilderness
Area near Hyland Post in
Northern B.C. — was inten-
tionally lit June 2 by B.C,
Parks staff to improve ani-
mal habitat.

But it took off on those
who set it and the blaze
consumed between 4,000 to
§,000 hectares of trees in a
9,000 hectare area.

Fire service information

officer Al McDonald said -

the habitat burn was meant
to generate belter grass and
feed for area animals and
was scheduled to lake place,
section by section, over a
number of years.

That plan was scrapped
when hot dry conditions
teamed with afternoon
winds to blow the flames
out of control by June 3.

“We had a little bit of an
overachievement,” McDo-
nald said.

He said the forest service
didn’t said people to -the

blaze, save for, a.couple,fites

fighters to protect park ca-
bins.

' The fire stayed within
park boundaries and didn’t
damage any harvestable for-
est.

McDonald said drizzle’

and cool conditions con-
tained the fire by June 5,

but the blaze is still under

observation.

“We expect to see the
odd wisp of smoke for the
next month or so,” he said.
injured
RCMP SAY lab results will
determine whether a 28-
year-old Terrace motorcycl-
ist involved in an accident
at the corner of Walsh and
Eby June 3 will be charged
with impaired driving.

“We're actively invest-
igating this,” said Terrace
RCMP Cnst. J.R. Walker.

The male driver, whose
name can not be released
until if and when charges
are confirmed, was travel-
ling “significantly faster
than the posted speed limit”
south on Eby Street around
9 p.m. Saturday, June 3,
Said Walker.

The motorcyclist geared
down at toa high of a speed,
he said, and the bike’s back
tire began to bounce.

The bike wobbled, hit
the tire of a stopped car and
continued south about 50
feet before stopping.

The motorcyclist was
thrown off the bike and
landed underneath the car of
two Caledonia students en
route to their high school
prom,

“His head made contact
with the underside of the
vehicle,” said Walker. “If
he hadn’t been wearing a
leather jacket his injuries
would have been a lot
worse.”

The driver spent about
five days at Mills Memorial
Hospital with a concussion
~ his helmet came off be-
fore he hit the ground — and
a broken leg,

Walker said the students’
vehicle suffered a flat tire
but the grads weren't hurt in
the accident.

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 14, 2000 - A13

a Bridging the gap

THE OLD ASPHALT deck covering the Williams Creek Bridge on Jackpine
Flats was removed and a new one laid down as part of a $500,000-plus
project to pave roads in the area. Work on the project began June 6 and
highways officials expect the first-time paving of roads In the area to be
completed before the end of the month. Terrace Paving has the contract
for the project. The highways ministry does ask people ta keep children
and pets a safe distance from the equipment. Other roadwork in the Ter-
race area is expected to start soon. Two substantial projects involve
sealcoating on sections of Highway 16 east and west of Terrace..

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