Members of the Estevan Fire Rescue Service were called to separate collisions on Thursday morning.
The first involved a semi-trailer unit and a pickup truck at the junction of Highways 47 and 361 north of the city. No injuries occurred, and nobody was entrapped, as Fire Chief Dale Feser said it was a low-speed collision. No leaks were reported, either.
The scene was eventually turned over to the RCMP to investigate the cause.
Just as crews were re-entering the city, they were called to another collision, just to the east of the intersection of Fourth Street and Kensington Avenue. It appears that one vehicle rear-ended another.
Once again, there weren’t any injuries or entrapment, but there were minor leaks. One vehicle could not be driven.
The Estevan Police Service eventually took over the scene.
The fire department was also called to a structure fire on Tuesday in the rural municipality of Estevan, to the northeast of the city. Crews arrived to find an unoccupied home on fire.
Firefighters made entry quickly, and extinguished the flames. There weren’t any injuries, but Feser said damage to the home was fairly significant.
He credited the quick-thinking actions of the property owner to call 911 to get the fire department out there in a timely manner.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
They were also called to a wildland fire Wednesday southeast of the city, near the Westmoreland Mining LLC building.
“It could have been a heck of a lot worse, but the quick-thinking actions of the mine rescue team actually kept the fire at bay and they almost extinguished the fire,” said Feser.
Once the fire department arrived, they checked to make sure vegetation wasn’t going to be an issue.
Feser, who is a former member of the mine rescue team, praised the team’s efforts.
“Without them, just that in that response time, that fire could have grown to an uncontrolled type of situation,” said Feser.
A power line issue appears to be the cause, as the fire was directly below a power pole and transformer.
