KAMSACK — It was a busy Easter weekend for Kamsack’s fire brigade, which was called a total of seven times to attend either fires or motor vehicle accidents.
The activity began on Thursday, April 17 when the alarm at a residence had sounded, but it was soon discovered to have been a false alarm set off due to cooking, said Ken Thompson, fire chief.
At about 12:30 p.m. April 19, the brigade was called to a motor vehicle accident north of Norquay, where it was said a person had been entrapped in a vehicle, he said. The brigade was near Pelly when it was told that the person had been extracted from the vehicle, so the firefighters returned to Kamsack.
At about 4 p.m. that day, the brigade was told of another motor vehicle accident on Ketchemonia Road at Keeseekoose First Nation, he said. The vehicle was found in a ditch and the brigade returned to Kamsack.
And then at about 7:30 p.m., the brigade was called to a grass fire at Cote First Nation, where they found three fires threatening residences. Because the ground was wet, the fires were extinguished within about two hours, and the 13 firefighters were able to leave the site.
On Sunday, the brigade was called to a grass fire at the CN tracks in Kamsack where fire had started at a pile of railroad ties and may have threatened the community’s water treatment plant, Thompson explained. The fire was extinguished in about two hours.
At about 7 a.m. on Monday, it was noticed that the fire in the ties had re-ignited, and within about 40 minutes after the brigade began work, a CN crew arrived to relieve the firefighters and dealt with the matter.
On April 22, the brigade was called to a single-vehicle rollover on Highway 8 about 16 kilometres south of Kamsack where two persons had been taken to hospital by ambulance. The brigade stayed on scene for about two hours conducting traffic control.
