The change in the weather on Wednesday reduced fire behaviour in the Thompson Complex wildfires.

There was a sprinkling of rain on Fire 61, and Fire 5 by Cross Lake received about 15 millimetres of rain.

On City Beat yesterday, Mayor Colleen Smook shared details about the work of two local firefighters.

“Two of our Fire and Emergency Service’s auxiliary members, Charlie Hendren and Al Meston, left for Leaf Rapids yesterday to assist the wildfires in that community. They are travelling in the Thompson Fire and Emergency Service’s pick up equipped with two fire skids that Global Medic donated a few weeks ago.”

This is Meston’s second time accompanying one of the fire skids out of town to assist another northern community.

He also took one of the skids to Snow Lake and helped with value protection work there, wetting down structures to protect them from wind-driven embers.

Meston and his colleagues also helped protect the Snow Lake golf course as the fire crept close to its edges.