.Here is a great photo of the Hillcrest Fire Departrment taken at the Mesachie Lake Community Hall, where we now hold our annual reunions.  There is no date on the photo but it was during Hillcrest's hayday.

Identified from left are:  Jack Coates, Jack Dorward,  Carlos Waldie, John French, Ted Demmings, Harold Peterson, Jack Webster, Chief engineer, and Fire Chief. The reason all the kids are on board is to give them a ride around the community so that they wouldn't try to follow or jump on when the fire truck is on an actual emergency run.
 

This story below was told to me by Jack Millar son of the yard and mill foreman Jack Millar.

 

If I remember correctly, and I might be wrong, the fellow in front in the fire truck pic was Carlos Waldie and I think he worked in the logging division. They moved elsewhere some time before 1968 but lived up the road from us in the 1950s. They had a big dog, a St. Bernard, the biggest dog in town at that time. I remember driving home with my Dad one Saturday when we met the  St. Bernard coming up the road with a hind quarter of venison in its jaws. When we got home, sure enough, the deer my Dad had shot that morning was still hanging in the garage, but missing a hind quarter. That made for a good laugh around town for a while.

Cheers; Jack

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