ra a fee RSE tae eager See REET AP a ye Can AB - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - .- By KAT LEE THREE LOCAL Forestry firefighters -are in Quebec to help with the lightning- - - caused fires there after a resource request July. 10.. . An initial attack crew from the Skee: na zone consisting of. Adrian Griffith, Philippe Grant and Michael Talstra left - for Baie-Comeau, located 420 km north- “east of: Quebec City, on the morning, of | July 12." -, oi “Everyone’ $ ona deployment list and ~ itt goes in rotation,” said Charlene Wiles, - the fire information officer for the North- _ west Fire Centre based out of Smithers. . Fire centres from all over the province ‘are sending crews to help with the fires in ', Quebec, including specialists and mem- "bers of the Rapattackteam.. - The first request for. 14 initial attack . ‘crews from B.C. came on the” evening of July 10, Five initial attack crews re- sponded from the northwest: two from. © Burns Lake, and one each from Houston, - Telkwa and Terrace...” The. crews from the Northwest are “working with other crews on a 750 hect- Revenue — "agency looks: into —mishap | THE: ‘CANADA Revenue. a Agency i is looking i intohow. | Pa "_aThornhill resident erided up. : being on the receiving end of “sensitive private information. ° , belonging to two individuals - » living on Vancouver Island. Bill Fulton. received a_ -manila envelope in the mail - from, the Canada Revenue Agency Junie 30. addressed... 7 to him: but: containing tax. ~~ “» receipts, Social Insurance we . other people. : accurate. But that doesn’t “ring to the items reaching _ used to plan essential ser- © Numbers, credit card: num-- bers and other personal ‘in- formation | ‘belonging. to two The. incident spurred. ~Skeena:Bulkley, Valley MP: . | ‘Nathan Cullen to fire offa . .- "letter to federal Minister of ‘Finance. Ralph Goodale de- ”» Manding |: an: investigation into the incident. He has yet to receive a response form the Minister’s office, but Canada Revenue Agency spokesperson Dan McGrath says the: agency is aware of the error and is in- vestigating it. “Our reaction is to take it ~ seriously, our policy is to in- vestigate and take corrective . “measures where possible,” McGrath said last week. . The federal government sends out 110 million pieces - of mail each ‘year, McGrath said. “It’s 99.9999 per cent mean to say we are comfort- ‘“able about it,” he said refer- — the wrong person. _ He said an investigation will look into what proce- . dures were taken to get the “mail out and.if any changes: need to be made, they will be. The personal documents.” _ were left with Nathan Cul- | vlen’s office. It . ‘has since forwarded the items to the Canada Revenue Agency’s Burnaby office to be redi- rected to the intended recipi- — ents. - » Census needs © ~ helpers THEFEDERAL government is on the-hunt for people in the Terrace area to start work on the next: national _census. Dubbed the ‘country’ s “largest and most important survey” the census, held ev- ery five years, aims to count every person in the country. It tabulates statistical infor- mation such.as the econom- ic, social and demographic make-up of Canadians. . FINANCING PROVIDED BY are fire approximately 300 km north of Baie-Comeau. The initial request for the firefighters was 10 days, but they could _ Stay in Quebec longer depending on the - _ fire situation. The maximum time period _a firefighter can work without a break i is . 19 days. , Y ' “They’re‘ not. going to. _ take any units from here if we're needing it.” . a Charlene Wiles and 21 additional attack crews headed ” over to Quebec. . ’ Lightning activity-in Maniwaki, Que- bec (130 km north of Ottawa) triggered a third request for resources on July 13. . _ Five unit crews, seven initial attack crews, and a 19-person management team from across the province were requested. One -of the five unit crews came’ from Burns Overall, 42 three-person initial attack A second request was made July 12. crews, five 20-person unit crews, a 19- person management team and 16 support staff from B.C. have been sent to Quebec. There are 71 initial attack crews and 27 unit crews in total in the province. : There is also the possibility that more crews may be deployed if the fire situa- tion in Quebec escalates; but the north- .. 4g west isn’t-left lacking firefighters for. our own needs. ' “They’re not going to take. any units ‘ from here if we’re needing it,’ Wiles . said. Before deployment, the fire danger ratings in each region are taken into con- sideration and the crews are distributed as needed. Although the fire danger rating in the Terrace area'‘is low and there are no an- ticipated fires, there are resources close - _by in case anything flares up. The Skeena .. zone still has one initial attack crew and one unit crew at the base. ‘In addition, there i is a unit crew in Ha- zelton and a unit crew and initial attack” crew in. 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