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Dismantling HFP sawmill By Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today
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A fire destroyed a home in Perow Loop last Friday. Topley Fire Chief Byron Sketchley says the home was totally engulfed in flames when they arrived, so they focused on saving the surrounding sheds and equipment. The home owners did not have house insurance. Photos submitted
Equipment from Houston Forest Products is being shipped to across B.C. and into Alberta and the U.S. Joe Chiasson, Site Manager for International Machinery Movers, says they started d i s m a n t l i n g equipment last August and hope to be done by March. They work alongside Hero D e m o l i s h i n g Company taking down the HFP sawmill and planer and saving and shipping what equipment has been sold. Twenty people are employed on site; 15 of them are local and most are ex-employees of HFP, Chiasson said. A team of five from Ontario and Quebec are renting an apartment in Houston
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“We hope to be done by March” - Joe Chiasson, Site Manager
as they oversee the work. The teams are salvaging two kilns, a sorter bin, conveyer, transfer deck, quad saws, trim saws, edgers and “almost everything,” said Chiasson. Then they ship it as far as Oregon and Idaho to be rebuilt and added on to other mills. Some equipment was sold to DH Manufacturing in Houston, and some is being shipped to Washington, La Crete and Acheson Alberta. See HFP on Page 2
Home burned to the ground By Jackie Lieuwen A home in Perow Loop between Houston and Topley burned to the ground last Friday. Topley Fire Chief Byron Sketchley says the home was fully engulfed when they arrived, and the home
owners did not have insurance. Twelve firefighters and two trucks from the Topley Volunteer Fire Department fought and controlled the blaze from 3:24 to 8:52 p.m. Though the house was totally lost, the fire crews saved everything
around it, including a storage shed, boat, snowmobile, motorhome, camper, and a small CAT for moving snow. Sketchley says the home owners had a chimney fire earlier that morning and thought they extinguished it so they went to town.
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“They didn’t call the Fire Department,” Sketchley said. “It’s really too bad, because we have a thermal energy camera. We do a lot of chimney fires and we can find spots that are still burning in the walls or ceiling. Even if you can’t see it, we can find it.”
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