Medicine Hat Fire Service urging people to be safe on river after multiple river calls

MEDICINE HAT, AB- Weather conditions this weekend have prompted the Medicine Hat Fire Service to urge residents to be extra careful around the river.

The Medicine Hat Fire Service said on their Facebook page that they responded to numerous calls on the river.

Platoon Chief Jason Labash said yesterday a parent notified the fire department after
three children floating down the river didn’t end up at Strathcona when they were expected. Labash said water flows and wind direction were having an impact.

” When they got on the river they weren’t traveling as fast, or as easy as they were probably hoping,” he said.