Tag Archives: Paramedics/Fire
Rotary Club raises funds for ShelterBox Canada while recognizing area emergency services
The Rotary Club of Melfort brought emergency services members in the region together over the weekend to recognize their work.The appreciation dinner saw representatives from the Melfort's fire depart...
Oct 28, 2019 Rotary Cllub hosted emergency service members in the region while raising funds for ShelterBox Canada. (Facebook/Kerry Vickar Centre)
Melfort searching for new fire chief
Melfort is on the hunt for a new fire chief.Jason Everitt is leaving his role as fire chief with the city at the end of the year to take a position as the fire chief in Whitehorse, Yukon.Everitt has s...
Oct 28, 2019 Jason Everitt (r) is leaving his position as Melfort's fire chief at the end of the year (File photo/northeastNOW Staff)
Rosetown Co-op Agro Centre ‘a total loss’ after Saturday fire
The west central Saskatchewan community of Rosetown is grappling with a major loss this weekend.Late Saturday night, the town's Co-op Agro Centre burnt to the ground.Mike Moon, the store's general man...
Oct 28, 2019 (Submitted photo)
Northern community in shock but rallies after tragic crash
The enormity of the tragedy of Friday night's motor vehicle incident south of Beauval in Northern Saskatchewan is still being taken in by the community. The crash, on Highway 155, involving a truck an...
Oct 27, 2019 The tiny hamlet of Jans Bay near Beauval is in shock according to the mayor. (planningforgrowthnorthsk.com)
Paramedic among 3 dead in north Sask. crash
UPDATE:Late Saturday afternoon RCMP released updated information related to the tragic incident Friday.In a media release, police said the crash involved an ambulance and a truck. The northbound ambul...
Oct 26, 2019 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)
Showing appreciation for emergency services personnel in the Melfort area
The Rotary Club of Melfort is showing appreciation to emergency services personnel in the area this weekend.The Emergency Services Appreciation Dinner is being held at the Kerry Vickar Centre Saturday...
Oct 25, 2019 The Emergency Services Appreciation Dinner will be held at the Kerry Vickar Centre on Saturday. (File photo/northeastNOW Staff)
Crash on Main Street in Melfort
A two vehicle collision on Main Street in Melfort Wednesday afternoon sent one person to hospital.At around 2:20 p.m., Melfort Fire and Rescue responded to the intersection of Main and Hatton Ave. whe...
Oct 24, 2019 (Cam Lee/northeastNOW Staff)
Community mourns teen victim of fatal crash
A special counselling service will be held Tuesday night at the Lake Park Baptist Church, in response to a tragic crash that happened over the weekend in the Rural Municipality of Birch Hills.A 14-yea...
Oct 15, 2019 According to the Birch Hills Fire and Rescue Facebook page, a fatal single vehicle rollover happened early Sunday afternoon on the Coxboy grid, west of New England Road. (Nigel Maxwell/paNOW Staff)
Nipawin Fire responds to multiple calls over Thanksgiving weekend
Nipawin Fire had a busy Thanksgiving weekend with a few calls on Sunday.Shortly after 1 p.m., the department responded to a combine fire in the RM of Torch River.The fire was contained to the combine ...
Oct 15, 2019 Nobody was hurt in a combine fire Sunday. (Facebook/Nipawin Fire Dept)
Motor vehicle incidents near P.A. and Birch Hills
UPDATED:The holiday weekend has resulted in a fatal crash and at least two other incidents.On Sunday afternoon, Birch Hills Fire and Rescue responded to a single vehicle rollover west of the New Engla...
Oct 14, 2019 A two vehicle crash to the south of P.A. Sunday night. The P.A.F.D.said there was no entrapment and the injured were taken to hospital. (Nigel Maxwell/paNOW Staff)