{"id":37534,"date":"2023-08-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=37534"},"modified":"2023-08-06T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T10:00:00","slug":"from-the-firehouse-july-2023-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=37534","title":{"rendered":"From the Firehouse &#8211; July 2023 calls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Brought to you by:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;67&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MILFORD:<\/strong> Here is a look at the busy month of July for local volunteer fire departments across the municipality and Stewiacke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following information is provided by Milford fire; Enfield fire; Lantz fire; Stewiacke fire; Nine Mile River fire; Shubenacadie fire; Uniacke &amp; District fire; and Kennetcook fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The month of July remained busy for <strong>Milford Fire<\/strong>, responding to 18 Calls. The department was called for mutual aid on nine incidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firefighters heard the tones on their pagers for 11 Motor Vehicle collisions; three Public Assists; two Grass \/ Brush Fires; one Structure Fire and one CO Alarm call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stewiacke fire<\/strong> attended to 24 calls during the month, led by nine mutual aid requests to neighbouring departments due to the July 22 flooding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also responded for six medical assists; three residential and two commercial fire alarms; two mvc\u2019s; one structure fire; and one power lines on a vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;For firefighters with <strong>Shubenacadie Fire,<\/strong> they responded to 23 calls, including 10 in their own area. That number included four flood calls; three mvc\u2019s; and three gas detectors calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department also responded to 13 mutual aid requests to neighbouring departments. They attended to three calls in Indian Brook (alarm call; mvc; rescue); Milford fire (gas detector call; four mvc\u2019s); Maitland fire (one medical); Kennetcook fire (gas detector, stood down0; and Nine Mile River (public assist\/rescue).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lantz fire<\/strong> responded to 45 calls, the busiest month for them in years, including 19 medical assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The firefighters heard the \u201csound of their people\u201d also for seven water rescues; six mvc\u2019s; four public assists (flooding); three alarms; two heating equipment fires; two gas leaks; and two structure fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For <strong>Kennetcook fire,<\/strong> they had 12 total calls led by four medical assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The firefighters also attended to two ATV requests; two alarms; one flood; and one smoke condition call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Enfield Fire<\/strong> responded to 41 calls led by 20 medical assists. Firefighters heard their pager tone six times for other type of calls; four mutual aid requests; four mvc\u2019s; three structure fires; three alarm activations; and one brush fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For <strong>Nine Mile River fire<\/strong>, they had 10 calls, led by three persons trapped and three mutual aid requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department also attended one mvc; one herbage fire; one medical assist; and one tree on power lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Uniacke &amp; District Volunteer fire<\/strong> in Mount Uniacke responded to 28 calls during July with that tally led by seven medical assists and four mvc\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also rolled out the doors in the fire trucks for four mutual aid request; three public assists; two illegal burns; two dumpster fires; two structure fires; one vehicle fire; one fire alarm; in carbon monoxide alarm call; and one gas\/odour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Elmsdale fire<\/strong> didn\u2019t provide call info before we posted this story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>From the Firehouse is brought to you by:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;67&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brought to you by: [adrotate banner=&#8221;67&#8243;] MILFORD: Here is a look at the busy month of July for local volunteer fire departments across the municipality and Stewiacke. The following information is provided by Milford fire; Enfield fire; Lantz fire; Stewiacke fire; Nine Mile River fire; Shubenacadie fire; Uniacke &amp; District fire; and Kennetcook fire. 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