News
- August 23, 2011The Nelson Daily - A dramatic accident/rescue took place in Pass Creek over the weekend, after an ATV and its driver went over a steep embankment.
- August 22, 2011Squatters are believed to be the blame of a small fire that occurred in the early afternoon of Friday, August 19 west of Nelson near the CPR tracks.
- July 24, 2011Nelson Daily - Rescue members from Golden to Grand Forks and Smithers to Seattle, Wash., flocked to Nelson Saturday to pay tribute during a memorial service for Ymir resident Sheliah Sweatman.
- July 24, 2011Nelson Star - Search and rescue workers from around BC, along with the RCMP, BC ambulance paramedics, firefighters and other emergency responders gathered with family and members of the public to pay respect to Sheilah Sweatman on Saturday.
- June 30, 2011On June 30, 2011, Nelson Search And Rescue lost one of its brightest young stars, Sheilah Sweatman, who drowned while on a task attempting to recover a body from a car in the Goat River near Creston, BC.
- May 4, 2011Nelson Star - A trailer that burned in Bonnington on Tuesday night was the site of a grow-op, RCMP confirm. No one was home when the fire broke out on Whitelock Road.
- May 1, 2011Nelson Star - Members of several Nelson-area volunteer fire departments received a crash course recently on how to handle wildfires threatening homes.
- March 31, 2011After years of lobbying from the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs, Ottawa has now approved a tax credit for firefighters.