Firefighters light up some grass
Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.
That was the plan for dozens of Prince Albert and Buckland firefighters who were out at Little Red River Park on Friday. Crews, with the help of the province’s ministry of environment, were performing controlled burns in the tall grass to prevent wildfires from happening.
Prince Albert fire Capt. Randy Hurd said there’s multiple ways fires can start from discarded cigarettes to sparks from dirt bikes.
“We got quite a large area of wildland grass that has been left unattended over the last couple of years,” he said. “It’s getting to the point where it is getting quite hazardous both to the surrounding forest, and to the surrounding people who live in the area in the north part of Prince Albert.”