The Estevan Fire Rescue Service had a busy schedule last week, with a rollover, a wildland fire and other calls.
At approximately 12:30 p.m. on Aug. 17, fire crews, as well as the Estevan RCMP and Estevan Emergency Medical Services, responded to a two-vehicle collision north of the city.
“The collision was north of the city, three miles west of Highway 47 on the Steelman grid road,” said Feser.
“Crews arrived on scene to find both vehicles upright, there was a minor injury on one of the drivers which EMS had treated on scene. After continued road monitoring the scene was then turned over to RCMP to continue their investigation.”
Firefighters were also called to a grassland fire on Aug. 19 at 1:30 a.m. southeast of the city. “Crews arrived on scene and found what looked like a small wildland fire. Crews did suppress the fire, however, due to unstable ground conditions of old mine, working crews were limited to what they could do so the fire was contained and allowed to burn itself out.”
In other recent news for the fire department, in the evening of Aug. 15, crews responded to a commercial fire alarm in a mixed-use occupancy in the central part of the city. Firefighters arrived on scene to find it was a cooking related issue.
“The homeowner did provide the monitoring agency with the correct password but it wasn’t accepted at that time,” said Feser.
“The homeowner did everything they could possibly do in their power to negate an unnecessary response from the fire department, so there will be no subsequent charge for this particular response for preventable false alarm, as when crews arrived on scene they did find it avoidable in nature.”
Then they were called to a commercial fire alarm in east-central Estevan in the evening of Aug. 18.
“When crews arrived on scene they found the fire panel had gone into alarm and it appeared that the area was experiencing issues with power. SaskPower crews were dispatched to the location to figure out what was going on. This particular occupancy was swept through by fire crews to ensure there was no danger and the scene was turned back over to SaskPower for further troubleshooting.”
The fire department also had a number of public relations calls in the past week.
“Wednesday was our first call for service for this particular week,” said Fire Chief Dale Feser. “We had a Smokey the Bear presentation, which was done in conjunction with Woodlawn Regional Park, in which a lot of the people from the campground came to partake in a public education seminar, which pertained to fires in the outdoor environment.”
Members of the RCMP were also present at the event with some of their cruisers for the public to look at, and the fire department’s new wild land utility task vehicle was present. The was event done in coordination with Woodlawn Regional Park and the Southern Plains Co-op.
Crews were also involved with a public relations engagement on Aug. 18 in conjunction with Mr. Mike’s Steakhouse Casual’s slo-pitch tournament held at the Pleasantdale Softball Diamonds.
“Two members of the crew were in the dunk tanks to raise funds for the Estevan Firefighters Association for further purchase of wildland firefighting equipment,” said Feser.
