Vale’s Mine Rescue team will compete for Provincial honours at the Triple-7 mine in Flin Flon on May 24th and 25th.

 

Five teams competed locally to determine the Vale Manitoba reps for that competition.

 

Mike McDonald, Advisor of Fire & Rescue for Vale Manitoba, tells us who is on the winning team.

 

“The team is made up of Captain Mark Scaddan, co-captain Joe Catarino, Justin Lefebvre is number two man, Kurtis Arnold is number three man and Tom Flett is number four man.”

 

McDonald shares what challenges the team will face at the provincial competition.

 

“There’s the fire-fighting competition using 20-pound fire extinguishers. There’s a bunch of different fires they have to put out.

 

There’s also a first-aid portion where they have usually one or two victims that they’ve got to package up and get ready to transport to the hospital. Usually they wind up carrying them out of the mine.

 

And the third one, they usually have an underground mine problem. That could be anywhere from a mine fire, trapped people, clearing gas, it could be just about anything.”

 

They’ll be up against teams from Hudbay in Flin Flon and Snow Lake and Tanco from Lac du Bonnet.

 

Winner of this competition will go to Fernie, B.C. in September for the National event.