聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 The wind that howled across Saskatchewan last week made its presence known in the Kamsack area on Tuesday around 1 a.m. by its sound, and by leaving much of the area without electrical power.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 While most residents either slept through it, or listened in the dark to the wind battering everything in its way, emergency personnel, particularly members of the Kamsack Volunteer Fire Department, were at work for what ended up to be a total of about 18 hours.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 It was at 1:44 a.m. when the department was notified of a fire at the Kamsack refuse grounds. It took about two and a half hours for firefighters and equipment to extinguish the flames, Jim Pollock, fire chief, said on Thursday while rummaging through reports of the previous days鈥� work.
The fire was contained to the site, Pollock said, explaining that members of the crew said that they believed a compost pile at the dump had heated and the high winds activated a fire.
The firefighters were then called to three separate fires that had erupted in the RM of Cote in the Runnymede area, he said. In all three cases, the fire had escaped from what had been controlled burns.
On Thursday, Pollock was still scratching his head in amazement that property owners did not conceive of the risks they had been taking by attempting controlled burns while the wind was blowing so rapidly.
They were brush fires that were fanned, he said.
While firefighters were busy, the department received a call notifying it of a blaze near the intersection of highways No. 8 and No. 357 south of Kamsack, but because all the resources were 小蓝视频 used, the call was relayed to the Rhein fire department.
Passing by a site at Duck Mountain Provincial Park, a Kamsack firefighter had stopped where a tree had fallen on a power line.
The Kamsack department was also called to a farm near the southeast edge of the RM of Cote, south of Togo, outside the Kamsack department鈥檚 jurisdiction because the Roblin firefighters were otherwise occupied. Eventually, the Roblin crew was able to attend.
It was not until about 7 p.m. that the equipment was put away and the firefighters went home to sleep.
鈥淲e were completely taxed and could not attend so many incidents,鈥� Pollock said. 鈥淭here will probably be some major bills going out to property owners.鈥�
