Members of Salmon Arm Fire Department Hall 2 were responding to a possible fire in a jack-knifed semi in Canoe, when they saw another truck roll over in front of them.
The report of the first semi-trailer that rolled off the Trans-Canada Highway and into a ditch near 60th Avenue NE came in at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 4.
A report of smoke turned out to be steam, says assistant fire chief Jim Nickles, noting the driver was already out of the truck and uninjured when firefighters arrived on scene.
As is the practice, firefighters from a second firehall responded and, while heading east on the Trans-Canada, watched the semi in front of them jack-knife and block the highway on the hill heading down towards Canoe.
“The roads were a sheet of ice and the highway had to be closed until (maintenance company) JPW could sand the hill,” Nickles says. “The road was closed for over an hour.”
Woman hurt
RCMP confirm a woman was airlifted to hospital in Kamloops after a single-vehicle collision on the Trans-Canada Highway in Tappen Tuesday morning. No other information was available at press time.