ESTEVAN - The Estevan Fire Rescue Service experienced a busy week.
Calls for service started coming in early Tuesday. At about 6:30 a.m., firefighters were paged out to central Estevan, where a power pole caught on fire. Crews secured the area until SaskPower arrived. Once the power was cut, firefighters extinguished the fire.
Acting Fire Chief Rick Davies said he believes the fire was related to power issues that the city was experiencing Tuesday morning.
Customers on Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Streets were among those affected by the outage. Power wasn’t restored until later in the afternoon.
Just a few hours later another serious call for service came in. Multiple fire crews were dispatched to a motor vehicle collision on Highway 18 east of Bienfait at about 10 a.m. A semi-truck collided with a car, leaving an 18-year-old car driver out of Regina dead.
Firefighters assisted the Estevan RCMP with traffic control on both sides of the highway and helped at the crash scene for the rest of the morning and into the afternoon.
At about 3:30 a.m. last Wednesday, fire crews got dispatched to a commercial fire alarm going off in north Estevan. The duty officer responded and determined that it was a false alarm, so crews stood down as there was no emergency occurring.
Another commercial alarm went off at about 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday as well in the south area of the city. It was quickly determined that it was a cooking-related incident and no assistance on behalf of the fire department was required.
Just before 8 p.m. on Thursday, a residential fire alarm was triggered in northwest Estevan. It was checked out and determined that it was a false alarm, so firefighters returned to the station.
On Friday and Saturday, the EFRS members were on standby at the Estevan Motor Speedway for the races.
