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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
McLeod kids love new playground
Students at W.L. McLeod elementary are happy with their new playground equipment. The addition is part of B.C.’s $8 million school playground funding initiative. In Spring 2012 the school district learned that the BC Ministry of Education was giving them $50,000 to buy playground equipment. Because the community formed a playground committee of parents, students and maintenance staff they were able to spend the entire grant on the most popular equipment. Instead of spending some of the money on organizers and prep work. Photo by Sam Redding
Fire danger levels rising Sam Redding Omineca Express As fire season begins to ramp up the regional fire centre in Prince George is predicting that the danger level in Vanderhoof will rise to high this week. Residents need to remember that although lightning caused fires aren’t preventable, human caused ones are. “At the moment the fire danger rating in Vanderhoof is low to moderate and we’re expecting it to stay that way at least until the end of Saturday,” said Eno last week. “After
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240 hectares in size. That fire has 61 firefighters and four helicopters working on it, it has not been deemed dangerous to structures or infrastructure of any kind. Eno said that even though there are no fire restrictions for the area at the moment, people should still be careful. “People should exercise caution, make sure to have hand tools or water on hand to extinguish the fire and to clear an area around the fire of at least one metre so it’s free of any fuels like dry grass or twigs.” As of June 26, the Prince George Fire Centre has had 88 fires in comparison to an average of 126 fires. So the region is still doing better than average.
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that, Sunday and Monday, we expect the danger rating to climb to high and that’s based on predictions of the weather. The weather is always the best predictor of fire behavior but unfortunately it’s challenging to predict it.” On June 29 and 30 fire crews and officers will be on standby in the Vanderhoof zone, they will be supported by crews from the neighbouring areas should the need arise. The closest ongoing forest fire is several hours away from Vanderhoof, up near Fort Nelson and there are a few more in the north-west zone closer to the coast. So Vanderhoof is fairly safe for now. The Fort Nelson zone has 11 active fires, the largest at
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