A Slave Lake family is out of house and home after their trailer caught fire in the early morning hours of Oct. 23. According to deputy fire chief Jamie Coutts, the call came at 2:30 a.m. The occupants, he said, had been awakened by their smoke alarm and got out safely. The fire burned the roof off, Coutts says, but some of the contents were saved. The firefighters also managed to prevent damage to adjacent structures.
Neighbour Matthew Stern was alerted by the sound of sirens and when he stepped out into the windy night he smelled smoke and saw the flames. He snapped several photos, one of which appears on the front page of this week’s Leader.
Stern says the fire response seemed quite quick, but he says a single fire hydrant to serve the neighbourhood seems inadequate.
Scott Sinclair was even closer to the action, but was asleep when somebody knocked on his door telling him to vacate the premises because his next door neighbour’s house was on fire.
“I had no idea what was going on,” he says. “I peeked out the blind and it was red from the flames.”
Sinclair says the fire department and the police did “a great job” in protecting the other homes and making sure everyone was safe.
It was the second trailer fire of the week that firefighters dealt with. The other was on Oct. 20 at kilometre 41 of the Old Smith Highway, where a trailer was completely destroyed. Nobody was hurt in either fire.
Also on Oct. 23, the Widewater fire department dealt with a grass fire in Assineau, caused by a downed power line

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