The chief of the Elgin Fire Department reports it was a good year from their perspective at this year’s Pollett River Run.
Kent Steeves says they had a few call outs for bangs, and bruises as well as one person suffering from hypothermia.
He says with most of the water in the river now snow runoff, it’s fairly cold.
“If they’re in the water for prolonged periods of time, with the water running swift, it’s hard to get off to the side, to get off the banks, so it tends to make it set in a little bit faster for hypothermia,” says Steeves.
Steeves says they were ready and able to respond to anything they could reach from shore, and for everything else, Riverview Fire and Rescue’s swift water team was also there.
(Photo Credit: Lindsay Gauvin, Executive Director, Petitcodiac Watershed Alliance)
