{"id":34277,"date":"2023-02-12T19:14:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T23:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=34277"},"modified":"2023-02-12T19:14:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T23:14:40","slug":"fire-displaces-family-community-stepping-up-to-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=34277","title":{"rendered":"Fire displaces family; community stepping up to support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SOUTH UNIACKE:<\/strong> The community is rallying around a family after a devastating fire in South Uniacke last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uniacke &amp; District Fire deputy chief Shawn Darby said fire crews from the community and mutual aid neighbouring communities responded around 5 p.m. Thursday for a structure fire in South Uniacke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUpon arrival we had thick black smoke coming from the roof\/soffits,\u201d said Darby. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe initially started with a defensive attack with two hose lines in through separate windows until we had enough apparatus and manpower on scene to begin interior attack.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Approximately 35 firefighters were on scene, with mutual aid from HRM Station 10 (Sackville Drive); Station 11 ( Patton Road, Sackville); Rawdon fire; and Brooklyn fire. East Hants RCMP, N.S. Public Works, N.S. Power, and EHS also attended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The community has started a meal train for the family. That can be found at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mealtrain.com\/trains\/2n699q\">https:\/\/www.mealtrain.com\/trains\/2n699q<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many in the community have already filled out the form over the next two weeks on dates they plan to help the family with meals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A GoFundMe has also been setup for the family, who had no insurance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the link to that: <a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgofund.me%2F01692c18%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0QOxWZuxIor-C0zwdqmaME4PRne9S47NoLstgPbHxEXSkcHp2GRZH0pzI&amp;h=AT1uPVOY9OTKLMTJskKV0gBUzAF5Kfk34liwMj10zlWWii3LLSUC5NSED-KembSrc0f2_51usPN8pYDyPi_5TAT9a5Y5_8RWDpa6Z9USwLFv0PKbt5IhyQ3OeHgOiDEmCCI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/gofund.me\/01692c18<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;190&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darby said smoke conditions were heavy for a considerable period of time and it took firefighters a while to fully ventilate the mobile home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOnce we had ventilated, crews were able to begin overhaul and check for extension as the fire was in the walls,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause was deemed to be accidental, and the mobile home was turned over to the homeowner once the fire was extinguished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;71&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darby said the home had heavy smoke and heat damage throughout as a result of the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Canadian Red Cross tweeted on Feb. 10 that volunteers with the N.S. unit of their organization was helping the family with temporary emergency lodging, meals, clothing purchases, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;169&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;93&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;188&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;] SOUTH UNIACKE: The community is rallying around a family after a devastating fire in South Uniacke last week. Uniacke &amp; District Fire deputy chief Shawn Darby said fire crews from the community and mutual aid neighbouring communities responded around 5 p.m. Thursday for a structure fire in South Uniacke. \u201cUpon arrival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[233,196,4610,315,48,3273,34],"class_list":["post-34277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-community","tag-east-hants","tag-mobile-home-fire","tag-mount-uniacke","tag-n-s","tag-south-uniacke","tag-structure-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34277","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=34277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34277\/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=34277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}