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11-30-2005, 09:36 AM
SLAVE LAKE, AB - A dangerous fire broke out in Widewater last week on Nov. 22, threatening several homes. It took the combined efforts of two fire halls and the local Forest Protection branch to knock it down before it damaged any structures. “It was reported as a small brush fire behind a house,” says Regional Fire Service Deputy Fire Chief Jamie Coutts. “It turned out to be a big brush fire behind everybody’s house.”
The fire was one of several that flared up on that day between Slave Lake and High Prairie
All of them aggravated by high winds, low humidity and high temperatures.
Coutts and crew from Slave Lake, along with Widewater’s Hall #2 responded to the fire at about 9:30 a.m. Coutts says that at first he thought they could handle it, which is what he told Wildfire Operations Officer Ken Orich in a 9:57 a.m. call. That was good news to Orich, because he already had his Initial Attack people on a bush fire at Kinuso. Meanwhile, near High Prairie there were two fires going.
Source: lakesideleader.com (http://www.lakesideleader.com/newsroom/volume34/051130/story1.html)
The fire was one of several that flared up on that day between Slave Lake and High Prairie
All of them aggravated by high winds, low humidity and high temperatures.
Coutts and crew from Slave Lake, along with Widewater’s Hall #2 responded to the fire at about 9:30 a.m. Coutts says that at first he thought they could handle it, which is what he told Wildfire Operations Officer Ken Orich in a 9:57 a.m. call. That was good news to Orich, because he already had his Initial Attack people on a bush fire at Kinuso. Meanwhile, near High Prairie there were two fires going.
Source: lakesideleader.com (http://www.lakesideleader.com/newsroom/volume34/051130/story1.html)