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Firefighters in training at Smithers airport
- Date Range
- March 1993
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Scope and Content
- Photo of firefighters extinguishing a chemical fire during a two-day seminar at the Smithers Airport. Firefighting crews from Smithers, Telkwa, and Witset (Moricetown), along with the RCMP, attended these training sessions hosted by CN Rail and the Methanex chemical corporation.
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Creator
- John Young
- Fonds No.
- BF5
- Series No.
- S4
- Item No.
- P8504
- Accession No.
- 2020.36
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph; colour
- Scan Resolution
- 300 dpi
- Date Range
- March 1993
- Custodial History
- Photo was originally taken by Interior News staff for publication in the paper. It was retained by the News until being transferred to the Bulkley Valley Museum, likely in 2007, as part of a large donation of photographs, negatives, and textual records. Item was stored in Room 6 until being found in collections and accessioned in Fall 2020.
- Scope and Content
- Photo of firefighters extinguishing a chemical fire during a two-day seminar at the Smithers Airport. Firefighting crews from Smithers, Telkwa, and Witset (Moricetown), along with the RCMP, attended these training sessions hosted by CN Rail and the Methanex chemical corporation.
- Arrangement
- Item was found in an envelope with other photographs from the same date. All photographs in this series have been removed from original order and arranged in the order in which they were scanned.
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Notes
- Appears in the Interior News, March 31st 1993. Negatives available.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
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