|
Members of the International
Association of Firefighters |
|
Welcome to Local 1372 |
|
Car Wash Fundraiser for the Burn Fund
|
|
 |
DATE: August 16, 2008 between 10:00-14:00
EVENT: Car wash by donation and dunk tank for the kids to knock down the firemen. Kids will get to use a real fire hose instead of balls to hit the target on the dunk tank.
COME SUPPORT THE BURN FUND.
|
|
|
Swift Water Operations Course |
|
July 14-15: Prince George Fire and Rescue Swift Water instructors taught the first Operations course of the year. Check out some more photos in the picture section or click here.
|
|
| |
|
|
Medical Team to Sierra Leone, West
Africa |
|
|
|
|
March 1-11, 2008: Firefighter
Rob Ingham and his girlfriend Lynn (ER Nurse) were part of a medical team
that went to Sierra Leone, West Africa.
The medical team (3 doctors, 3 nurses and 1 firefighter) along with
a few other support people made up the Canadian Team, called Willamette
Medical Team based out of Albany, Oregon.
In a small refugee camp, called Tiaima, they held a medical clinic
for 5.5 days. Tiaima is about 4
hours inland from Freetown (capital of Sierra Leone).
|
|
|
The medical team saw and treated about 700 people, mostly
children under the age 4 years old.
Each day there were at least 200 people waiting as the medical team arrived
to the clinic and 200 more people waiting after the clinic closed. This was hard on the medical team having
to leave each night knowing there were still people waiting to be treated. Many of the people being treated had to
walked 30 miles with little children just to have a chance to see a doctor.
|
|
|
|
|
The medical team treated for STDs, Malaria, Diabetes, burns,
HIV, dehydration, scabies, worms and many more illness. Most of the patients were undernourished
and had infected wounds. One of the
biggest problems facing this refugee camp was that there was very little
clean water to drink leaving most people in the village dehydrated after
suffering from diarrhea and vomiting.
The Willamette Group is planning a trip back to install a water
treatment and pump house in this area. |
The people of Tiaima were so loving and appreciated every little
thing and they had nothing. Their
beautiful faces still showed the pain and hardship from the diamond wars but
they never complained once and appear to be happy and have a strong faith in
God. Firefighter Ingham and Lynn are
already making plans to return to Sierra Leone. More pictures. |
|
|
|
Hazmat Technicians Course |
|
|
|
June 9-12, 2008: 12 members
of Prince George Fire Rescue took a Hazmat Technicians course. It was a great course and everyone
learned a lot. Thanks to our
instructors from JIBC and congrats to everyone for passing. |
|
|
Slideshow |
Video |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Kelowna Softball Tournament |
|
|
|
|
June 5-7, 2008: Congrats to
the guys who went down to Kelowna for the Annual Firefighters Softball
Tournament. They won every game but
the last one, finishing in 2nd place! Way to go guys! |
|
|
|
|
Largest Fire in City History |
|
|
|
May 26, 2008 (Source:
Prince George Citizen): Prince George Fire Chief Jeff Rowland said
conditions were just right for the largest fire in Prince George history at
Canfor's North Central Plywoods mill in the BCR Site.
"It's a huge building and there's a lot of sawdust, and
it's just right for a fire to take off," Rowland said Tuesday.
"We thought we had the fire controlled. I was in the building
about a minute before it took off.
It was clear, we knew where the fire was, and the guys that were on the
roof said |
|
|
a minute later the fire rolled out both ends of the
building. In two minutes we had to get nine people off that roof."
Captain Mark Hill, noting the roof was comprised of different layers of
various materials, said the situation was "a bit scary," both for
the Canfor employees who started fighting the fire, and for the 16 Prince
George firefighters in attendance.
|
|
|
|
Hill and the crew thought they contained the blaze after
cutting a trench in the roof, a procedure he said stops fires nine times
out of 10. This time, however, the flames got behind them.
"As the roof fell in front of us it also started to fall
in behind us," said Hill, who likened the noise to a "jet engine
taking off.” |
|
"We lost some gear, we just dropped everything and ran.
The assistant chief was the last guy; I was the second last guy. We made
sure everybody was off and safe. We were lucky we had an escape
route."
|
|
|
The 26-year firefighting veteran credits the crew for working
hard, long hours. "It's what we train for. I know it's (matter of life
and death) probably in the back of the mind of every firefighter. It's just
one of those things you really don't have time to think about. You make
sure what you've trained for all these years is put into practice and you
make sure everybody goes home safe at the end of the day." Hill said
this one was "probably one of my biggest" in 16 years of fighting
fires. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
New Probationary Firefighters |
|
|
|
|
May 5, 2008: Congrats to
our new probationary firefighters who started on May 5, 2008. Jeremy Kostyshyn, Ken Foisy and Sean
Coyle. |
|
|
|
|
Proud to Be Video |
|
|
|
May 12, 2008: Click here to see
the “Proud to Be” website promo video. |
|
|
|
|
|
New Probationary Firefighters |
|
|
|
|
Apr 7, 2008: Congrats to
our new probationary firefighters who started on April 7, 2008. Rod Lowet, Norm MacLeod, Mike Stachoski
and Rob Pears. |
|
|
|
|
2008 Harley Davidson Raffle |
|
|
|
Mar 29, 2008: Winner of
the 2008 Harley Davidson Raffle is Paul Tiefensee of Prince George. For more details on the winners click here. |
|
|
|
|
|
IAFF Memorial Ride |
|
|
|
Sept 5, 2007: Members of Prince George Fire Rescue, IAFF
local 1372 recently were a part of the first annual Memorial Ride put on by
the IAFF. Members rode from Prince George to Sturgis, South Dakota
and then on to Colorado Springs, Colorado where they took part in the
annual memorial service to honour their brothers who gave their lives in
the line of duty the past year. More Pictures. |
|
|
|
|
|
Muscular Dystrophy Boot Drive |
|
|
|
|
Sept 7-8, 2007: Each year the
Firefighters across Canada raise over $1,000,000 for Muscular Dystrophy
during the annual "Boot Drive."
Since 1964 the Prince George Firefighters have held a Boot Drive and
have raised thousands of dollars each year towards research and treatment
for those suffering from MD. This
year we raised over $21,000. |
|
|
|
|
Gone But Never Forgotten |
|
|
|
Our fallen firefighter |
|
|
|
|
|
Contact Webmaster |
Unique
Visitor Counter
 |