The Dauphin Fire Department does an incredible job serving the community when called upon and that was the case earlier this week.
On Thursday evening, they were called to the DRS storage building on 4th Avenue SE and upon their arrival, they extinguished a blaze that was only dozens of minutes away from becoming out of control.
While en route; however, an individual on a bicycle refused to move for one of the responding trucks. The individual was swerving across the lanes and they also shone a flashlight into the eyes of the driver and passenger of the responding truck.
As Cam Abrey says, that is something that can't happen.
"Anytime that you see an emergency vehicle whether it be an ambulance, a fire truck, or an RCMP vehicle and they have their lights and signs activated, we ask that people pull to the right and make way for the vehicles to safely respond," said Abrey. "We also ask people not to take any sudden actions because we don't want to cause any secondary incident, but slowly reduce your speed and pull to the right."
Failing to do so could also result in disciplinary action.
"There is a way that we can pursue that with the RCMP and have someone charged with impeding the progress of an emergency vehicle responding to an incident," ended Abrey.
Cam also said that anytime you need the DFD, they will be here to serve and protect.
