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Six said involved (TERRACE-RUTIMAT

in Mountbatten blast

DUBLIN (Reuter) — A
rollce chief said Monday
tectives believe that up to
elx men were involved in the

Irish Republican Army

bamb attack w
Earl Mountbatten and
nions in . the

three compe

Irish republic last week,
Supt. John Courtney, head

of the republic's special

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- Mountbatten,

radio,

investigation bureau, told
reporters he is pleased with
the progress of the in-

ves ion.
. Two Irishmen, Francis
MeGirl, 24, and Thomas
McMahon, 31, have been
charged with the murder of
Queen
Elizabeth's cousin. They

have heen remanded in

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Courtney said dozens of
known IRA sympathizers
are being questloned ‘dally
about the explosion on the
British peer's fishing boat off -
the County Sligo coast.
Earlier Monday, itwasan- \

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nounced in Loudon that Pope
John Paul has appointed the
apostolic delegate .

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_ By DAVID
.CLIMENHAGA
Special to the Herald

‘ “When we went in,’”-
Paul Pashnik smiled and
Sald,“the fire was totally

doubled in size.” ©

. it = contrel, we
‘mopped it up and we
handed it back to the
ranger.”

“A nice, neat little
. package!”

Pashnik, who spends
most of the year em-
ployed as training officer
for the British Columbia
‘Forest Service's Resins
Rupert Forest ion,
had good reason to be
smiling. As fire

a st a Lend

of the six-man “fire
/ overhead team’ which
flew from the Prince
Rupert region to the Dan
fire west of Shushwap
Lake in late July, he had
run an operation he
calls“a great success,”
._ Baek in Prince Rupert
after three weeks on the
fire ‘site, Pashnik com-
mented: there was no
confusion and no lack of
efficiency. It was a great
success.
“Once we moved in, the
fire control activities
were implemented with

a >_< —S esd a

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uncontrolled—and then it ©
“Well, then we just got

superintendent in charge |

the precision ofa military .
operation— there were no__

PRINCE RUPERT

Fire fighter describes his job

goof-ups and there was no
wasted effort.”

“When we arrived the
local ranger had some
men fighting our fire,
other crews fighting
other fires and more fires
breaking out all over the
place. We moved in and
completely took over the

DAN Fire, we took the’

total inad off his
shoulders, hired crews,
set up camp, brought in
aircraft and fought it toa
standstill.

“Once we got it under
control, we handed it
back -to the ranger and
went home.”

When a forest fire
breaks out, forest service
suppression crewsrush to

the scene and usuaily.

have the blaze under
control by 10 a.m. the

next day, Pashnik ex-

plained. But when his
overhead team, or Q+
Group, flew south con-
ditions were so hot and
dry and so many fires
were breaking out that
local ranger staff were
having serious difficulty
coping.

“The fire was already
at about 700 acres when
we arrived, then the wind
came up and the fire
doubled in size in’ one
day,” he noted.

“There were only about
40 men on the scene and

holding action.

“So we just took over
control activities and let
the ranger staff go to take
care of initial assault on
other fires in their aren,”
” Once on the job, the six-
member team-made up
of a fire superintendent,
fire boss, camp boss,
administrative officer,
air services coordinator
and ‘expediter’, the man
charged with procuring
services and equipment
without delay--went to
work organizing the
firefighting effort. The
team, with members
from Kitimat, Prince.
Rupert, and Smithers,
were freed for duty in the
busy south because of the
Prince Rupert Region’s
comparatively quiet 1979
fire season.

“This is a completely
new concept,” explained
Pashnik. “The idea is
that when things get hot
and heavy, as they were
all over the south in late
July and early August, a
team of experts from a
quieter area can come in
and completely relieve a
ranger on a problem fire.

“The teams are only
supplied at the request of
the ranger in the district
with the bad fire,” he
added,

“The team is specially
designed to fight what we
call ‘project fires'--forest

fires so big they muat be
fought over a long period
of time by special crews
which camp near the
scene,

“Normally, 'Pashnik
said, “we do not an-
ticipate project fires.
The aim of the forest
service is to hit fires fast
and hard and tostop them
before they became
problems.”

_ However, sometimes
high winds, extreme

temperatures and ex- -

plosively dry fuels mean
a fire just gets out of
control—and that’s where
we come in, :
“That's where we came
in on this one and, boy,
was it ever a project!’
“We had to move in a
150 man camp complete
with showers, cooktents
and sleeping tents. There
were about 5 tents all

‘told, We had to hire the

men and operate eight
cats and two large
helicopters with monsoon
buckets." (Monscon
buckets are used for
dropping fire retardant
chemicals from
helicopters on
troublesome forest fires.)
“Let me tell you." said
Pashnik, ‘‘we worked
some long days.
Sometimes the guys were
out 16 or 17 hours.”
“But it all went very
smoothly- I attribute

that to the fact that we all
knew our jobs.”

“Any problems that did
come up we were able to
nip in the bud.”

The concept , which has
been discussed in Forest
Service circles for some
time, worked so well that
many experts feel ‘It’s
the way we have to go on
big fires,’’ said Pashnik.

“Officials in the
Kamloops Forest Region,
where the DAN Fire was
located, are going to
recommend this to
Victoria; that we make
several of these groups
available in each region.

“This winter our
will put together a
manual for new 0O-
Groups. It'll be ready, we
hope, by next summer.
We'll be able to use some
of our experience to
refine and improve some
of our administrative
techniques, for exam-
ple.” .

Pashnik’s 0-Group was
not the only contribution
made by Prince Rupert
Region firefighters to this
summer's efforts in
southern B.C, In ad-
dition, a second fire
overhead team, three-
member helicopter-borne
rappel suppression teams
and four assistant
rangers flew south to
fight forest fires,

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