Northwest fire centre removes Nadina crew
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As the fire season comes to a close, the Nadina Mountain Crew has leftto scatter to their homes, and to never return again.
After a province-wide look into where the crews should be located it was decided to take the Nadina Mountain Crew out of Houston and relocate them to the Lower Mainland, possibly Revelstoke.
“Every year can be an anomaly... but what we’re finding is the trend is there’s more and more, and that the fire load is increasing in the southern part of the province,” Northwest Fire Centre manager Ian Meier said.
The shift has seen the 20 man Nadina crew moved down south as well as two initial attack crews moved, however the Northwest will still be adequately covered in the case of an emergency, Meier said.
“Provincially our crews are very mobile,” Meier said. “We move our crews around all the time based on where the biggest priorities are. Most of our crews this year spent all of their time down south.”
Add to that the remaining crews left in the region and residents should have nothing to worry about, he added. There are still unit crews in Burns Lake, Telkwa, Hazelton and one in Terrace as well as initial attack crews in Burns Lake, Telkwa, Dease Lake, and Terrace.
No jobs have been lost in the shift, he added, it is just a shuffle in their home base.
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