Lesser Slave Regional Fire Service

🚴🍦 HELMET SAFETY SUMMER INCENTIVE 🍦🚴

This summer, keep an eye out for members of Slave Lake EMS and Lesser Slave Regional Fire Service around town!
Children spotted wearing their helmets while riding around town may receive a special ticket for a FREE ice cream cone from Alimo’s Pizzeria! 🍦☀️
We want to encourage safe riding habits while making summer fun for the kids in our community. Wearing a helmet is not only smart — it’s the law, and it can save lives.

Did you know?�⛑️ When properly worn, Helmets reduce head injuries by more than 40% and serious head injuries by 60%!!

Make sure your child wears a helmet for every ride — whether they’re biking, scootering, skateboarding, or rollerblading.
Thank you to Alimo’s Pizzeria for partnering with us to help promote child safety in our community! ❤️

Stay safe, have fun, and we hope to hand out lots of ice cream tickets this summer! 🚒🚑🍦

Crews are on scene of a motor vehicle accident on Highway 44 2km south of the Chisholm Corner. Road is currently closed. Please give our crews room to work. Currently no ETA for re-opening.

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We know it is difficult, but its important to reflect on our history. 15 years ago in the evening of May 14, 2011, and into the day of May 15th, the fires that were burning near Popular Lane and Canyon Creek started to damage structures. By the time the fires had been extinguished it had become one of the worst fire loss events in Alberta's History.
What also happened was people came together, The Slave Lake Area became known for its ability to step up and in the years that followed were the first to offer help when other events started to happen.
We take this time to reflect, and to remember.

The 13th I went to the city to get newborn photos done of my 10-day-old baby, and my family was concerned that we were gonna get stuck in the city or hit fires on the way there.
We came back the afternoon of the 14th and we got stopped at the road going to the pulp mills because the fire had just gone over the highway and it was too hot for any vehicles to go, so we were there 2 hours, it was a hot day and my baby was crying and we were just parked on the road. We finally got to go back to town, and it seemed fine, everyone’s like “oh the fires will never get here, the wind’s blowing the other way.

"It’s fine… it’s fine."

Taken from a recent interview with A.M., a lifelong resident of the Slave Lake Area

Shown below is a photo AM's partner sent her as he left work on the afternoon of May 14th, 2011

Yesterday members from Station 1 Slave Lake, Station 2 Widewater, Lesser Slave Lake Search & Rescue and Alberta Wildfire were out Firesmarting and cleaning garbage in the SE trails and at Hilda Eben park as well as Firesmarting at the Slave Lake water intake building on the North end of Main Street to help protect our critical infrastructure.

Monday May 11. Firefighters in Slake Lake will be doing hazard reduction burning in parts of town starting at 7:30pm.

Please be advised the train crossing at Main Street and 3rd Street are activated due to an issue with a train car in Town. CN has been advised, please ensure to check the crossing before proceeding in areas controlled by lights that are activated.

Alberta Emergency Alert System Test – May 6

As part of Emergency Preparedness Week, the Government of Alberta will be conducting a test of the Alberta Emergency Alert system tomorrow, May 6, at 1:55 p.m.

While this is only a test, it’s a good opportunity to ensure your phone is set up to receive emergency alerts and that notifications are enabled. These alerts are an important tool for sharing timely information during real emergencies.

Additional information is available at: http://alertready.ca

Being informed is a key part of being prepared.

The Government of Alberta will issue a test of the Alberta Emergency Alert system tomorrow, May 6, at 1:55 p.m. Download the Alberta Emergency Alert app and check your phone’s compatibility to make sure you are receiving alerts.

Learn more: http://alertready.ca

Emergency Preparedness Week | We’re In It Together

Emergency Preparedness Week is a great time to refresh your plans, check your emergency kits, and make sure everyone in your household knows what to do when something unexpected happens.

🔥 Join us for a FREE BBQ tomorrow!
📅 May 6
⏰ 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
📍 Town of Slave Lake Office Building

Drop by to connect with local emergency partners, explore equipment, and learn how you and your family can be better prepared. While you’re here, enter for a chance to win some great preparedness giveaways!

Come for the food, stay for the knowledge — preparedness starts with community.

Firefighters from Station 1 Slave Lake and Station 3 Smith are currently responding to a serious motor vehicle collision near the Athabasca bridge on Highway 2, expect delays and please give emergency responders room to work. Light traffic can detour via the old Smith highway thru Smith, Alberta and the Mitsue Industrial Park. Large traffic please remember MD road bans are in affect.

Our hearts are with Fort McMurray and all of their residents today, 10 years since the massive wildfire took so much. As we look back on the Slave Lake 10 year anniversary and all of the emotions and memories it brought back for so many it was also an opportunity to see the true resiliency a community has when they band together. Our crews were in Fort Mac the morning it blew in, happy they could be there to assist and try to give back what so many people gave to us but also sad it was happening to another community just 5 years later.