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Using 5,000 sandbags(about eight truckloads of sand) staff from the Kalum Forest District responded to a call for help. A house near the Skeena river was threatened by flood water when the river overflowed in June so staff members from the district office, the Terrace Forward Attack Base and the Kitimaat Unit Crew waded out to help. Working with neighbors they spent all day building a sandbag wall around the house and setting up three pumps to handle leakage. They worked until midnight and managed to save the house.

Submitted by
R.J. (Bob) Wilson,
Silviculture officer with the Kalum Forest District