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Firefighters knock down fire at old Galloway mill
South Country firefighters responded to a fire at the former Galloway mill site early Tuesday evening (June 10).
“The fire was confined to a log pile and we took immediate action to suppress it and fully wet it down,” explained Elk Valley & South Country Rural Fire Deputy Chief Ben Goertzen. “There was no risk of spread and our team did an excellent job of quickly extinguishing the fire.”
Fourteen members from the Elko, Jaffray and Baynes Lake Fire Departments responded with six pieces of apparatus.
There were no injuries as a result of the fire and the cause is unknown at this time.
The call for the fire came in just after 7 p.m. and crews remained on scene for approximately three hours to ensure there were no hot spots.
Elk Valley & South Country Rural Fire and Rescue Service photo
