Here’s what Baker Lake’s municipal garage looked like on the morning of Jan. 29, hours after a fire burned through the building. The garage housed the hamlet’s fleet of water and sewage trucks, as well as other heavy machinery. (Photo by Shane Niego)
Letters 10 April, 2019
“Imagine if your entire infrastructure were reduced to one vehicle”
On behalf of the municipal council of Baker Lake, we would like to express our sincere appreciation to everyone involved in the recent fire that caused significant loss to the municipal services fleet as well as destroyed our largest equipment parking facility. To start with, our volunteer firefighters did a fantastic job fighting the fire…
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Letters 5 April, 2019
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Letters 16 January, 2019
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