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Vegreville Fire Services Open House
Vegreville Fire Services Open House
Rosanne Fortier - News Correspondent
Around 70 attendees toured Vegreville Fire Services (VFS) hall at its Open House and BBQ on October 11.
This event also gave people a chance to meet and greet the new Fire Chief Gary Faas, watch a short demo race of fire professionals dressing up in their fire attire as well as attractions for children which included getting VFS tattoos on their arms, meet and greet sessions with Sparky the Fire Dog, receiving firefighting caps and doing craft projects.
Captain Amanuel Webeshet said, “Members of VFS decided to host this open house for Fire Prevention Week, to get the public to come in and tour the place, and give the kids a chance to have some fun.”
When asked what the major new projects that were happening for VFS this year, he replied, “We have had success in getting our training centre going. We have the final blueprint and we will be taking another big step of hoping to have it finished in a few months at the end of 2023 where it will be located outside of the VFS building.”
