THE large-scale Covid-19 vaccination centre at Chester Racecourse has received a shot in the arm thanks to scores of firefighters helping to administer the jabs. Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service has provided more than 100 staff, trained by NHS colleagues to deliver the vaccine, at the county s newly-launched sites at the city s racecourse and Alderley Park, Macclesfield. The fire service personnel are also assisting with administrative and support duties. They are working vaccination shifts around their existing workloads where possible and, in some cases, volunteering their own time outside of working hours. Assistant chief fire officer Alex Waller said: “We’re all in this together, and as a service we are keen to make sure that everyone can get a vaccine as soon as is practically possible – that’s why we offered our help.
Crews continued to respond in a non-emergent mode just to ensure that the fire was indeed extinguished, said Estevan Fire Chief Dale Feser. What we found was that the exterior heater has fallen over and started on fire, and the residual propane had burned off and caused minimal damage to the structure. A lot of people enjoy ice fishing these days, and Feser asked them to remember the basic safety tips while using secondary heater appliances. You want to observe the manufacturer s recommendations and clearance distances, especially with the propane-fed and the wood-fired appliances. Carbon monoxide (CO) detection device is a good idea inside the ice fishing shack. If it s not properly vented, carbon monoxide build-up will occur.
Duchess Park Grade 12 students Gabriella Vis, front, and Brenna Harasym do a few touchups on the hose tower wall at the City of Prince George s new Fire Hall No. 1 on Massey Drive. The Art Portfolio 12 students were part of the team of 11 local students who worked on the Fire Hall No. 1 project.
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Deputy Chief Cliff Warner of Prince George Fire Rescue points at his name and the date he passed his probation, which were recently added to the hose tower wall in city s new Fire Hall No. 1 on Massey Drive.
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The hose tower wall in the old Fire Hall No. 1. Fire Rescue believes the first confirmed name and date added to the wall was G. Ollinger in 1966.
50 year tradition not extinguished at new fire hall
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On the walls of the recently decommissioned fire hall in downtown Prince George you will find generations of signatures first inked by firefighters on the day they passed probation.
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New recruits would climb to the top of the brick and mortar hose tower, where hoses are hung to dry, to leave their name and probation year in chalk.
According to the Fire Hall, this is a rite of passage that has spanned more than a half-century.
Now that a new hall has opened, Prince George Fire and Rescue has partnered with students from Duchess Park Secondary to bring the ritual to the new facility.
Anxious wait for Perth suburbs in fireâs path as wind fans massive front
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Perth residents in the north-eastern fringe suburbs of Bullsbrook and Upper Swan have braced themselves for a horror night, with a looming bushfire stretching 110 kilometres wide and raining embers threatening housing estates on Wednesday afternoon.
The Department of Fire and Emergency Servicesâ worst fears have been realised with a change in wind direction gusting the fire front uphill, with three breakout fires near homes in Avon Ridge and Joshua Mews, Shady Hills Estate and east of Shady Hills along Clenton Road, Property Road and Berry Road.