{"id":17159,"date":"2020-10-05T00:22:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T03:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=17159"},"modified":"2020-10-05T00:22:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T03:22:23","slug":"quick-response-in-beaver-bank-prevents-further-fire-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=17159","title":{"rendered":"Quick response in Beaver Bank prevents further fire damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;79&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BEAVER BANK:<\/strong> The quick response of firefighters prevented further damage from a fire in the wee hours of Oct. 4 on Galloway Drive in Beaver Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gord West, District Chief for Division 4 with Halifax Regional Fire &amp; Emergency Services, said the call of a structure fire came in at 1:34 a.m., sending close to 20 firefighters to the scene in the 0-100 block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUpon arrival, fire crews were met with a fully involved shed on fire and a trailer on fire,\u201d said West, adding that Tanker 10 arrived first and took command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firefighters from Station 48 Beaver Bank; Station 10 (Sackville Drive, Lower Sackville); and Station 11 (Patton Road, Sackville) responded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was reports of the fire extending into the woods and being within 10 feet of the house, according to Halifax Fire News on twitter, so a second alarm was called. That saw Station 45 Fall River and Station 41 Waverley paged, but they were stood down before arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>West said that the shed is a total loss, while there was some damage to the trailer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one was injured on the call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>West said that crews were on scene for three hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause of the fire is unknown at this time, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;81&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;7&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;9&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEAVER BANK: The quick response of firefighters prevented further damage from a fire in the wee hours of Oct. 4 on Galloway Drive in Beaver Bank. Gord West, District Chief for Division 4 with Halifax Regional Fire &amp; Emergency Services, said the call of a structure fire came in at 1:34 a.m., sending close to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[10,34],"class_list":["post-17159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-beaver-bank","tag-structure-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}