How to Help Volunteer Firefighters Help Others on BC Highways

We talk a lot about the importance of roadside worker safety as part of the Cone Zone campaign, but what about roadside volunteer safety? Volunteer firefighters, for example, are first responders to highway incidents.

They have triple duty:
• Controlling vehicle fires (and other fires)
• Attending to medical emergencies
• Performing emergency traffic control

We recently talked to volunteer firefighter, Martin Huhn, to learn what it’s like to be a first responder working in a Cone Zone (usually on Highway 3), and to share some safety tips for driving near emergency sites.