Members of the Elk Valley and South Country Fire Departments will be participating in their annual “moving big water” training exercise both tonight (June 11) and the evening of June 18 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in Jaffray.

The exercise will take place between Jaffray Village Loop Road and Galloway Mill Road on Highway 3.

Residents and travellers in the area can expect to see fire trucks and apparatus along with flashing lights in this corridor throughout the evening.

Living in the rural areas we do, we don’t always have the ability to hook up to a fire hydrant, and the process to fill our tenders with water from an alternate source has several complicated, moving parts.

This exercise helps our team work together to ensure they are as effective and efficient as possible when shuttling water.

RDEK

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