Local fire crews have continued their work in Jasper.
Crews arrived in Jasper Thursday morning (July 25), were immediately brought into the fight alongside other neighbouring departments according to a post on Protective Services – County of Vermilion River Facebook page.
Reports from Crew Chief Kyle Bergquist indicated that County Pump #6-2 began structural protection and continued in that role throughout the day until they were relieved by other crews.
Since then, in an update posted yesterday (July 28), crews spent the last 48 hours actively working the Jasper townsite doing salvage and overhaul with the goal of extinguishing any fire.
In the most recent update posted today (July 29) firefighters spent the last 24 hours working decontamination before being shifted to the northwest to assist in structural protection in case of changing wind conditions due to an increase in fire activity in that sector.
County Pump #6-2 remains deployed and has moved over to night shift. A shift change is scheduled for early Tuesday morning.
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