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A remote northern Ontario Cree community expects to receive a fire truck in the next week. It will arrive two months after a child died in a fire, cbc.ca reported.

In late January, a 10-year-old girl in the community of Peawanuck died in a house fire, the report said. At the time, the community of around 200 people near the Hudson Bay coast didn’t have access to fire services or basic firefighting equipment.

A city official with Weenusk First Nation, which includes Peawanuck, said the fire truck has been ready for around a week, and they are just waiting for the winter road to the community to be ready so the vehicle can be driven from Winnipeg to the community, the report said.

Winnipeg-based Fort Garry Fire Trucks is expected to deliver the pumper.

The city official said the small community has never had sufficient resources to deal with house fires, the report said.

The fire truck will have to be parked in a vacant warehouse for at least the next year, according to the report. The community plans to build a proper fire hall, but still needs to bring in engineers to sign off on the structure they have planned, the report said. 

In the meantime, the city official said the community plans for four people to get immediate training on how to use the fire truck, so they can start using it right away, the report said.

A falling tree slammed into a fire truck in Walnut Creek during Tuesday’s powerful windstorm, nbcbayarea.com reported.

The tree came down along Ygnacio Valley Road, shutting down multiple lanes of traffic and damaging the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District engine, the report said.

The firefighters are OK, but the truck will need repairs, according to the report.

Fire officials said everyone should expect more falling trees into Tuesday night, and they asked people to stay inside if they can.

The National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) has partnered with Anheuser-Busch for the fifth year to provide canned drinking water to volunteer fire departments that respond to wildfires. The Emergency Drinking Water for Wildland Firefighters program will provide 1.5 million cans of clean drinking water to departments in 2023 to help them be ready for wildfires and other long incidents.

Hydration is critical to keep firefighters at their best during wildfire response and protect them from heat-related illness and injury. The water donation program helps departments meet this need while allowing them to save critical funds for other resources and necessities. The program is an expansion of Anheuser-Busch’s longstanding tradition of providing emergency drinking water and supplies for disaster relief efforts. Since partnering with the NVFC in 2019, Anheuser-Busch has distributed 6.5 million cans of water to more than 1,400 departments across nearly all 50 states.

To apply for the emergency drinking water, departments must be located in the U.S., annually respond to wildfires, be over 50 percent volunteer, and serve a population of 25,000 or less. Departments in declared emergencies due to wildfire will also be able to request water outside of the application period to help with their immediate wildfire response needs.

The general application period is open through March 31. Visit www.nvfc.org/water to apply and learn more about the program.

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