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Volume 67, No. 5 | Thursday, January 29, 2015
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From left: Eric Einagle, Jordan Shaw, Shana Toale, Brett Musch and Evan Slater are in a yearlong work experience program with Creston Fire Rescue.
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Five firefighters have become familiar faces around town since they arrived in Creston on Oct. 31. Here for a year, they can often be seen jogging on the streets, working out at the fitness centre or volunteering at Creston Valley Thunder Cats games. And polishing, endlessly polishing, fire engines at the fire hall on a daily basis. Shana Toale, Eric Einagle, Jordan Shaw, Evan Slater and Brett Musch are Creston Fire Rescue’s first work experience program participants. They have made a one-year com-
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mitment in exchange for learning the daily routines at a community fire hall, being on call 24-hours a day and living on-site in the building across from the fire station. Each of the program participants followed a different path before coming to Creston. Toale graduated from college last August. Einagle attended an academy in Halifax and is a paramedic. Shaw went to the College of the Rockies. Slater came out of a firefighting academy in Texas. They all want to become firefighters, a traditionally difficult career to get into. “Out east in Ottawa there were 2,400 applicants for 34 jobs last year,” said Einagel.
And, while they want to become firefighters, each has a different picture in mind for their future. “Ideally, I’d like to be back home in Ontario, but wherever the job takes me is where I’ll go,” Toale said. Einagle said about firefighting that he “fell into it on a whim” but that he has become passionate about the vocation. “It’s the reason I did the paramedic program,” he said. “Every day is different — you never know what you are going into, good or bad, when the alarm comes in.” Shaw is driven by his passion for helping people and for physical fitness.
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“I like the variety that firefighting offers, with its many tasks, and I like working with my hands.” He has several family members who have made careers in emergency services. “I love the rush of being in a burning building,” he said with a smile. He hopes to find work in B.C., ideally in Kelowna. Slater describes himself as being “the odd one out” in his family. His father is a lawyer and both brothers are planning careers in wealth management.
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