{"id":18817,"date":"2020-12-18T00:03:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T04:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=18817"},"modified":"2020-12-18T00:03:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T04:03:55","slug":"fire-school-facing-labour-charges-in-death-of-former-fall-river-volunteer-firefighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=18817","title":{"rendered":"Fire School facing labour charges in death of former Fall River volunteer firefighter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WAVERLEY:<\/strong> The N.S. Fire School in Waverley will have to answer to two charges stemming from the training accident that led to the death of a well-liked and former Fall River volunteer firefighter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to CBC N.S., the fire school will be in court in early January to face the charges under Nova Scotia\u2019s Occupational Health and Safety Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skyler Blackie, who had become a career firefighter in Truro after a tenure as a volunteer with Station 45, succumbed to the injuries he suffered 11 days earlier. He had sustained the critical injuries on March 9 during a training evolution at the N.S. Fire School in Waverley. He was rushed to hospital by EHS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;94&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;95&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blackie had signed up to be an organ donor, so as his obituary said \u201chis legacy and strength will live on in others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In interviews that followed with those who knew him, Blackie was remembered fondly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI could see the spark. He was a very smart and talented young man,\u201d recalled Dave Lovett in the March 25, 2019 story on The Laker website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One charge against the fire school is that it failed to take every reasonable precaution that employees were familiar with each potential health and safety problem in the workplace; and that they failed to ensure equipment was recertified according to manufacturers&#8217; specifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lawyer for the fire school appeared in provincial court in Dartmouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The matter will return to court Jan. 11 for election and plea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAVERLEY: The N.S. Fire School in Waverley will have to answer to two charges stemming from the training accident that led to the death of a well-liked and former Fall River volunteer firefighter. According to CBC N.S., the fire school will be in court in early January to face the charges under Nova Scotia\u2019s Occupational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[1690,1693,760,356],"class_list":["post-18817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-firefighting","tag-skyle-blackie","tag-station-45-fall-river","tag-truro-fire-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18817","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=18817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}