Hamilton fire is hosting a ceremony at 9:30 a.m. on Friday to mark the donation of fire trucks that have been with the department for 25 years.
“One [fire truck] is going into Lac Seul which is about a 22 hour drive from here and the other will be used by the National Indigenous Fire Safety Council to go to communities that don’t necessarily have a truck or their truck is going to be in service,” Fire Chief David Cunliffe says.
“I think one of the things we really take for granted is the resources we have around us in the city and really in southern Ontario.”
He says there are many Indigenous communities in northern Ontario that do not have a lot of resources.
“We hear from time to time the fatalities that are happening and they just don’t have the equipment to do anything,” Cunliffe says.
Mayor Andrea Horwath and members of the Independent First Nations Alliance and the National Indigenous Council are also expected to attend the ceremony.