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Without fire hydrants, this northern Manitoba community uses buckets to fight fires – CBC

by ahnationtalk on February 7, 202529 Views

Feb 07, 2025

Firefighters usually improvise with whatever they can find at a fire scene

Volunteer firefighters in Tataskweyak Cree Nation have turned to buckets to fight fires due to the lack of running water in parts of the community.

“We use water [in buckets] to put out the fire because the pumps don’t work. Our hydrants haven’t been fixed in 40 years,” volunteer firefighter Virginia Audy told CBC News.

Tataskweyak, a Manitoba First Nation more than 700 kilometres north of Winnipeg, has a fully volunteer fire department and currently, no working fire truck.

Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/fire-hydrants-water-manitoba-first-nation-1.7451270

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