{"id":36084,"date":"2023-05-22T11:41:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T14:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=36084"},"modified":"2023-05-22T11:41:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T14:41:26","slug":"from-the-firehouse-april-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=36084","title":{"rendered":"From the Firehouse – April 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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KENNETCOOK:<\/strong> Here\u2019s a look at the April 2023 calls for local volunteer fire departments in East Hants and Stewiacke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The call information is provided from Kennetcook fire; Milford fire; Shubenacadie Fire; Enfield Fire; Uniacke & District Fire in Mount Uniacke; Stewiacke fire; Nine Mile River fire; and Elmsdale Fire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lantz Fire did not provided information before published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kennetcook fire<\/strong> responded to seven calls, led by three woods fires. They also were paged for a medical assist; a grass fire; a structure fire; and an ATV rescue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The month of April was quite busy for Milford Fire<\/strong>, responding to 22 calls, led by 19 mutual aid requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The firefighters heard the \u201csound of their people\u201d for 10 Grass Fires; three structure fires; two motor vehicle collisions; two fire alarms; and one vehicle fire as a result of an MVC;  a garbage fire; a possible structure fire; a woods fire; and a medical call to assist EHS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reminder, in comparison to previous years, this past winter and spring has not seen a lot of precipitation, as the hotter weather approaches and the woods is dry. Please check online for burning restrictions before having a campfire or burning outdoors.  https:\/\/novascotia.ca\/burnsafe\/<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Firefighters with Elmsdale fire<\/strong> were paged for 33 calls last month, led by 16 medical assists. They also were toned out for five structure fire; four mvc\u2019s; three brush fires; two alarm activations; and one each of an illegal burn; fire investigation; one propane fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uniacke & District Fire<\/strong> responded to 26 calls in April, led by 10 medical assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fire crews also attended to four mvc\u2019s; responded to three mutual aid requests; four brush fires; two fire alarm activations; two illegal burns; and one carbon monoxide alarm activation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Shubenacadie Fire<\/strong>, they had 17 calls in April, with 10 grass\/brush fires leading the tally. They also had two medical assists; two woods fires; two mvc\u2019s; and one alarm activation call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of their mutual aid calls included grass\/brush fires in Indian Brook; grass\/brush fire in Milford; alarm call in Milford; structure fire in Lantz; and a garbage fire in Indian Brook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enfield Fire<\/strong> had 30 calls on their pagers this month, with 16 medical assists leading that tally. They also were toned out for four brush fires; three mutual aid requests; three alarm activations; two mvc\u2019s; one structure fire; and one vehicle fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For firefighters with Stewiacke Fire<\/strong> they had nine calls in April, including two mutual aid calls which were to Indian Brook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crews from the Colchester County fire department were also toned for four grass fires; two mvc\u2019s; and one fuel spill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nine Mile River fire<\/strong> responded to eight calls, including five mutual aid requests to neighbouring departments. They also had two woods fires and one mvc call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have any spare time or are interested in volunteering as a firefighter in your community, reach out or stop by any training night to your local fire department and check it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brought to you by: [adrotate banner=”67″] KENNETCOOK: Here\u2019s a look at the April 2023 calls for local volunteer fire departments in East Hants and Stewiacke. The call information is provided from Kennetcook fire; Milford fire; Shubenacadie Fire; Enfield Fire; Uniacke & District Fire in Mount Uniacke; Stewiacke fire; Nine Mile River fire; and Elmsdale Fire. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,957],"tags":[196,4980,986,184,32,1033,690,595,1747],"class_list":["post-36084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-news","tag-east-hants","tag-east-hants-fire","tag-elmsdale","tag-fire","tag-firefighters","tag-from-the-firehouse","tag-kennetcook","tag-lantz","tag-stewiacke-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36084","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=36084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36084\/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=36084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}