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No more tuna fish sandwiches!

Standing in a parking lot, young man wearing red suspenders and yellow waterproof pants smiles. Parking lot is wet.

1. Volunteer fireman Guido Reichlin smiles after washing a parking lot.

We got the call out to Branchflower Road on Wednesday, July 29th and worked twenty-four hours straight. Our last house in the District is on Branchflower Road. We were able to save one house on Branchflower Road, but lost a barn. The hay shed we lost was like an inferno. There wasn’t a close water source.

It was a crazy time, but it was also a great time. It didn’t matter if a firefighter needed something, he got it. There was no bureaucracy. We were sleeping in the fire trucks.

To this day I still can’t eat a tuna fish sandwich.

Guido Reichlin
Former Volunteer Firefighter, Gleneden Fire Hall

 

Photo credit in order of appearance:
1. Rose Turner, c. 1999
2. James Murray, Salmon Arm Observer, c. 1998