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A blaze at a landfill in Whitewood on Friday night was made more challenging for firefighters by the extreme cold blanketing the province.
Whitewood Fire Department said in a Facebook post on Saturday that they were called to the landfill where a large hill of garbage had ignited around 6:15 p.m. and crews spent nearly eight hours in frigid conditions to get the fire under control.
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The department said crews had to battle -35 C weather, frozen water lines, frozen trucks and equipment, and “frozen firefighters”, and the blaze was finally extinguished around 1:50 a.m. with the help of landfill employees who used three dozers, a track hoe, loaders and a dump truck to spread the garbage and haul snow and dirt to help contain and smother the flames.
The blaze was finally extinguished around 1:50 a.m. with the help of landfill employees who used three dozers, a track hoe, loaders and a dump truck to spread the garbage and haul snow and dirt to help contain and smother the flames. (Whitewood Fire Department/Facebook)
Due to the extreme cold, two fire trucks had to “rotate back and forth to town” to refill with water and allow them to thaw before returning, the Facebook post said, and the cold temperatures also prevented three other fire departments from helping out with with water tankers.
The department also said that many firefighters also responded to the call “without having ate supper.”
Whitewood around 175 km east of Regina on Highway 1.
Fire in vacant Saskatoon building
Saskatoon Fire Department (SFD) crews also had to deal with extreme cold when they were called to a fire in an empty building in the Kelsey-Woodlawn neighbourhood on Saturday morning.
SFD said in a news release on Jan 24 that when crew arrived at the building in on Stanley Place just before 9 a.m., firefighters working in -33 C temperatures had to force their way into the building that was boarded up. A search found no one inside, and the department said that “all occupants safely evacuated.”
A fire investigator is working to identify the cause, origin and damage estimate, SFD said.
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