At the Voice of Cassia: Caieiee | OCTOBER 1979 _10cents

Tony Zemenchik — 8 Years Reg Ash — 13 Years Fred Hewett — 6 Years Gary Smith — 2 Years

October 7 - 13th being National Fire Preven- tion Week, we feel it is appropriate to congrat- ulate our Volunteer Fire Department for the tremendous job they do here in Cassiar.

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Our Fire Department consists of sixteen vol- unteer members, headed by Fire Chief Kinky Borsato. These volunteers meet every Monday evening to check equipment, view films, and to learn as much as ‘Possible about fire fighting. _ methods, he new and res sel aein

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- We must remember, at this. time, the tremendous responsiblility which the Fire Department has, as a whole. Every time a firefighter is called to a

FIRE CHIEF ~~~ ~fire he does not know whether or not he is — DEPUTY FIRE CHIEF

fete being called to save lives or even.risk his own. lt . Tony Coran — 12 Years SAY pase iSaents always seems as if the public is unaware of the u

risks involved. This newspaper has frequently published articles about the public’s- reaction to -atocal fire — mainly to rush to the scene as soon as possible. In spite of the dangers of this prac- tice being pointed out, curiosity still prevails. If you are not concerned about the danger to your- selves, PLEASE spare a thought for the victims of | a fire and for the firefighters.

We are extremely fortunate to have a Fire De- i

partment such as ours. Our firefighers have a great respect for people's property. It is grat- ifying to see that even though a fire has been ex- tinguished promptly, it has been done with min- imal damage other than that cuased by the fire CAPTAIN. itself. We owe the department a huge vote of

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CAPTAIN - ( 3 Fred Cousins — 7 Years 4 ~~ Bill Riddle — 4 Years : thanks,

uderjahn — 2% Years e Caesar Isidoro — 13

Lothar Kutz — 11 Years” : Bob Clark — 2 Years

Ted Krawezyk — 5 Years :

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