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Webster takes over as chief of WL Fire Dept.Angie Mindus Staff Writer

The Williams Lake Fire Department has seen a changing of the guard this year.

Long serving fire chief Randy Isfeld retired from his position in June, leaving room for Des Webster to become the new fire chief.

Webster, who started his career as a paid-on-call firefighter 19 years ago,

worked his way through the department to his cur-rent role.

Webster anticipates the Williams Lake Fire De-partment will respond to as many as 400 calls for service this year, plus prac-tise nights, meetings and training.

Currently there are 37 paid-on-call firefighters as well as full-time deputy fire chief/training officer Rob Warnock, full-time

fire prevention officer Joan Flaspohler and Melanie Kowalski, who serves as administrative reception-ist.

The department aims to have 40 paid-on-call fire fighters at all times and will be recruiting new members in the new year. Anyone interested in finding out what it takes to become a firefighter can watch for the open house scheduled for sometime in January.

Des Webster is the new fi re chief of the Williams Lake Fire Department. Webster took over for long serving fi re chief, Randy Isfeld, in September.

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Chimney & Felker Lakes Volunteer Fire Department members are, from left to right, Wade Lambe, Al Tranq, Alex Tranq, Rob Shelest, Bill Margetts, Allen Schaad, Darrel Bornyk, Jack Mullett, Larry Straza, Wayne Erlandson, and Dennis Melney. Not present are Jack Leggett, Leigh Markland, Lorne Schuette, George Broomfi eld, Harold Richards, Danny Moxey, Ken Mitchell, Gen Gibson, and Ken Lucks.

Firefighter fits the bill as new fire prevention officerAngie MindusStaff Writer

Joan Flaspohler is a woman who isn’t afraid of rolling up her sleeves and getting down to work.

For the past 18 years Flaspohler has been the lead hand in charge of gardening as Williams Lake’s first horticulturist.

Flaspohler also broke ground a few years later when she and fellow fire-fighter Judy Felker signed up to be the first women firefighters in the city.

And now Flaspohler has taken that ambition one step further by be-coming the city’s first ever female fire prevention of-ficer in August.

“I’m a true believer if someone else can do it, so can I with hard work,” said Flaspohler.

“You can’t be afraid to try. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.”

Flaspohler plans to use her years of firefighting experience and training to help her in her new role of enforcing the fire code.

“I know what can hap-pen in an emergency, I’ve

seen it,” she said.“These code require-

ments are essential be-cause they keep people alive.”

Flaspohler’s responsi-bilities include inspecting public buildings as well as keeping an eye on indus-try to ensure suppression equipment is in place and operational, there are no blocks to exits and that emergency lighting is in place and functional.

But Flaspohler is quick to point out her role not only keeps the public safe, it is also critical for the safety of firefighters who would respond in the case of a fire.

“When I’m doing an in-spection I want to make sure all the firefighters potentially going in there are going to be safe too,” Flaspohler said, noting that she feels her fellow firefighters are more like family members than col-leagues.

“It’s an incredible fam-ily that I’ve had for 14 years. We are constantly relying on each other in dangerous, emergency situations and so it cre-

ates a commradery that’s really hard to find in this day and age.”

Fire Chief Des Webster said Flaspohler is a per-fect fit for her new posi-

tion within the depart-ment.

“She’s worked hard for

it. She deserves it,” Web-ster said.

Joan Flaspohler is the new fi re prevention offi cer for the Williams Lake Fire Department. No stranger to the department, Flaspohler has served as a fi refi ghter for the past 14 years.

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150 Mile Fire Department has strong sense of communityAngie MindusStaff Writer

Like many rural com-munities, the fire depart-ment is often the heart of the community and that is certainly the case at 150 Mile House.

Currently the rural de-partment has 32 mem-bers, 18 of those trained to NFPA 1001 firefighting standard, who respond to everything from motor ve-hicle accidents, fires and all first responder calls. The department also has mutual aid agreements with Wildwood, Williams Lake and Miocene and field about 180 calls for service a year.

At the helm of the 150 Fire Department is Fire

Chief Stan McCarthy.“I’m the last of the

original members,” said McCarthy, who was the driving force behind the creation of the depart-ment in 1981 after his own house burned down.

“It’s a strong communi-ty,” said McCarthy of 150 Mile, whose residents took care of McCarthy follow-ing his loss.

McCarthy has been giv-ing back to the commu-nity ever since.

As fire chief, this year McCarthy helped to se-cure a new specialized air compressor to fill the department’s self-con-tained breathing appara-tus (SCBA) as well as 18 good, used SCBA from the City of Kitimat.

Every year in May the department also plays host to firefighters from across the province for an annual fire training weekend.

“If you’re going to teach it, you have to know it, so it keeps us up to stan-dard,” he said of the event.

McCarthy said the de-

partment and the 150 Mile community club is also gearing up to host its very popular annual Hallow-een event.

McCarthy said the party gets underway at 6 p.m. Halloween night with free hot chocolate and hot dogs, followed by cotton

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“It works really well, it’s probably one of the big-

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While the Wildwood Volunteer Fire Depart-ment has 24 members, it also boasts a junior de-partment with six mem-bers.

“Juniors are between 16 and 19 years of age, and learn everything from re-spect to every day life,” fire chief Randy Worsley said.

They have taken first aid, but because they are juniors would not be able to attend a call out. And Worsley wants to keep the number at half a dozen be-cause it’s manageable.

“It does give them good ground work for future career opportunities and I’m continuously signing forms for school to say that they’ve participated.”

The Wildwood fire de-

partment is very busy, Worsley said.

“We do a lot of calls.

Every week there’s at least one or two call outs.

He has been on the fire department for 26 years and remembers the depart-ment getting one or two calls a year.

The department has two B.C. Basic instructors who teach basic fire fighting and will have two instruc-tors for the First Respond-er courses.

“If we can do things in-house it will save taxpayers money,” Worsley said.

Down the road, the de-partment hopes to build a training centre adjacent to the fire hall.

A training centre would save money because every firefighter could work on developing skill sets, not just the few the depart-ment could afford to send out for training, Worsley said.

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In September, retiring fire chief Randy Isfeld re-ceived a certificate of ap-preciation from the city of Williams Lake.

“The certificate ac-knowledges and honours an incredible city employ-ee,” Mayor Kerry Cook said. “After almost four decades as a volunteer fire fighter, deputy chief and chief, Randy has retired.”

Isfeld found his calling

in the mid 70s after mov-ing to Williams Lake and joining the volunteer fire department.

He became the first employee in 1988 as fire prevention officer, later became deputy chief, and eventually chief in 2008.

“When he retired a short time ago, he had served 37 years,” Cook said.

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was severely injured on two occasions during his career and has faced some very large fires, she added. “His dedication to help-ing people, saving lives and firefighters has never wavered.”

He has overseen in-creased training and training standards, and the city is very proud of him, Cook said.

“Randy also saw the

new fire hall built, which was one of his goals. His resiliency and commit-ment to effort have been extraordinary.”

Looking out to the gal-lery of city hall filled with firefighters, Isfeld said his all of his accomplish-ments would not have been possible without the help the crew sitting there and the others back at the fire hall.

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A copy of the manual (in-cluding a FireSmart assess-ment checklist) is available online at: http://www.embc.gov.bc.ca/ofc/interface/pdf/homeowner-firesmart.pdf

People living in or near a wildland-urban interface area can reduce wildfire threats by properly maintain-ing the three “priority zones”

described in the FireSmart assessment checklist.

Homeowners should re-move any accumulated fuel from an area 10 metres wide all around the home (Priority Zone 1). This includes dead grass, leaves, brush, wood debris and overhanging branches.

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the building) can be made more fire-resistant by prun-ing or removing trees and shrubs. In the third priority zone (30 to 100 metres away from the building), home-owners should thin trees and shrubs so if a wildfire occurs, it will be a lower-

intensity fire. Reducing the amount of flammable material around homes also makes it safer and easier for firefighters to access these areas.

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Retiring fi re chief Randy Isfeld was recently awarded a certifi cate of appreciation from the city of Williams Lake for his 37 years of service.


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The Horsefly Volunteer Fire department, like all vol-unteer fire departments is the product of vision, hard work and perseverance by a few dedicated individu-als. And in 2013, that hard work was intensified when the community stepped up to help with a new fire hall.

In three months with 90 per cent of the labour do-nated by talented residents, a new hall was realized.

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The Honourable Dr. K. Kellie Leitch, Canada’s Min-ister of Labour and Minister of Status of Women, high-lighted the need for Canadi-ans to take all steps necessary to avoid the devastating ef-fects of fire and smoke in the home and in the workplace.

The Minister was participat-ing in the 17th annual launch of Fire Prevention Week at the Government Confer-ence Centre. “Finding ways to prevent injury and illness is an integral part of keep-ing Canada’s labour force strong, healthy and competi-

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