Riviere-Beaudette, QC - 2006-09-08

Photos and text by Stéphane Trottier
Translation from French by James R. Hay

At about 10:50, September 8, 2006 the Service Incendie de Rivière Beaudette received a call for a fire in the small garage behind the Ste-Claire-d'Assise Church.

Firefighters from Rivière Beaudette, under the direction of Director Richard Germain, helped by firefighters from St-Polycarpe, St-Télesphore et St-Zotique fought the fire to save the church. Happily the exterior wall of the church is brick and the fire did not propagate to the church.

Units on the scene were 218 (Rivière Beaudette pump), 318 (Rivière Beaudette tanker) 518 (Rivière Beaudette Emergency Unit), 221, 321 and 521 from St-Polycarpe, 322 and 522 from St-Télesphore, 223 and 523 from St-Zotique. The sûreté du Québec detachement from MRC Vaudreuil-Soulange Ouest as well as Hydro-Québec were also on the scene.