On Wednesday Aug. 16, at around 4:40 p.m., Cst. Mark Tataryn of the Golden RCMP Highway Patrol noticed a brush fire on Highway 1 near Golden.
The fire was on the north bank of the highway near Forde Station Road. It was around 20 metres wide and travelling east, beginning to engulf large trees.
Tataryn used multiple fire extinguishers from his police vehicle, the vehicles of fellow RCMP officers who attended and other motorists’ vehicles who stopped to help.
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