Relocating two fire stations will ensure almost every home in Medicine Hat is within a near six-minute response time while sidestepping the cost of operating a proposed fourth fire station, a report by the Medicine Hat Fire Service states.
Members of the Public Services Committee, who unanimously endorsed the plan on Tuesday, called it “creative” and “progressive.”
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The Medicine Hat Fire Service is creating mapping models to help determine where fire stations should be built in the future.
The idea of adding a fourth firehall first arose as a suggestion in 2010 as part of the service’s 10-year plan, but the item was left out of the city’s three-year budget approved last winter, amidst some controversy.
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Fire protection and emergency response were the top issues for residents at the Rocky View County (RVC) Division 1 town hall meeting in Bragg Creek on Dec. 3.
The FireSmart program, an initiative of Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, was created to help protect communities from wildfire threats.
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Kids climbed into fire trucks and hugged Sparky the Fire Dog as dozens of southeast Edmonton residents celebrated the opening of the Ellerslie Fire Station on November 3, 2012.
CALGARY— For years, the South Calgary No. 5 Fire Station has been dwarfed by the neighbourhoods growing around it.
Now, the city’s oldest working fire hall has officially given way to a new, bigger home base serving more than 28,000 residents of Altadore, Bankview, Elbow Park, Marda Loop, Mount Royal, Richmond, Scarboro and South Calgary.
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A Calgary rooming house that was the site of a fatal fire in September didn’t have smoke alarms in any of its seven rooms, the fire department said on Wednesday as it announced it has laid 12 charges against the homeowners.
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STONY PLAIN – The Stony Plain Fire Department presented their third quarter fire department report to town council this past Monday evening. The report included data accumulated a year to the date of the presentation.
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As Okotoks is gearing up to grow, the town’s fire department is well prepared to respond with the new south fire hall set to open in the spring.
Okotoks fire chief Ken Thevenot said the new facility, which takes up part of the South Ridge Emergency Services Building, is tentatively scheduled to open in May and it will include room for future expansion.
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Opponents of plans to log as much as 675 hectares of forest intended to reduce the wildfire risk in the Bragg Creek area told the provincial government to go back to the drawing board at a meeting held last week.
At a meeting at the Bragg Creek Centre on Sept. 25 Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resources Minister Diana McQueen unveiled three logging options in the Kananaskis area intended as a means of fire prevention. However, a large part of the more than 300 people in attendance panned the options calling them nothing more than a smokescreen to allow clear-cut logging.
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