ESTEVAN - Estevan Fire Rescue crews were assisting the Estevan police with the operation in the 600-block of Fourth Street on Tuesday when another call for service came in.
At about 11:30 a.m. they were called to a three-vehicle collision that occurred 10 kilometres north of Estevan on Highway 47, due to poor road conditions.
All three vehicles ended up in the ditch, but Estevan Fire Chief Dale Feser said that thankfully no one was seriously injured. People in two vehicles suffered some minor injuries. Fire crews assisted with the situation.
“The scene was then turned back over to the Estevan RCMP to continue to investigate the cause of the collision, and wait for a towing company to arrive to retrieve the vehicles from the ditch,” Feser said.
Earlier that day, firefighters were called to assist the EPS with perimeter and traffic control on the north side of the 600-block of Fourth Street at about 10:30 a.m.
Feser said that while only two members were involved with the situation at a time, they went over several scenarios and ensured everyone was ready in case more resources would be required.
“A lot of dialogue went back and forth between agencies there to ensure that all hazards were abated to any individuals that were going to be directly involved, and some of the background stuff that we're doing previously in the planning should the situation escalate and involve a fire situation or possible explosions, going through a bunch of possible scenarios and then alerting our crews as to what the plan would be should such a thing occur – where the fire hydrant was located and the staging of apparatus where that would occur,” Feser explained.
“There's a lot of pre-incident planning that goes into that. There were people that were busy working behind the scenes … There's basically a plan developed for just about any possible situation that may arise.”
Feser also praised the joint effort that resulted in a successful resolution of the situation.
“All crews and all agencies did an outstanding job working together. And it was just nice to see the professionalism shown by the Estevan city police, the SWAT team, (which all together) brought it to a successful conclusion without any injury or harm to anybody,” Feser said, “I can’t thank everybody enough for the teamwork and camaraderie.”
