fort mcmurray water technicians stayed behind to save vital service - air and dust purifier

In disaster, you will find the hero in the most unlikely place.
This week, 80,000 people gave up Fort mcmurlayle and George gilhead stayed to run his post.
Under a mandatory evacuation order, the fire had burned down the house and the city, and Muirhead packed up his vehicle.
He then came to the water treatment plant near theAthabascaRiver.
Many of the factory's employees have left with their families, leaving nine backbone crew members to continue their important work, providing their much needed firefighters in the battle to save the city
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Residents of the devastated Fort McMurray face a long wait as firefighters still have a long way to go until the flames start threatening the nuclear power plant itself on Wednesday afternoon, autility treatment technician mu
For some time, the crew were forced to evacuate to an oil company in the northern part of the city.
But hours later, they returned to the factory under police escort.
"The fire has come to the water plant and burned down the hillside opposite us and burned around the water treatment plant," Muirhead said . ".
"For some reason, to some extent, it decided not to attack the structure of our river entrance where we took water from the river.
"Once, firefighters who saved the nuclear power plant were exhausted by sitting on the tailgate of the fire truck.
"You can see that they did their best tirelessly to alleviate the fire around the factory and save it," Muirhead said . ".
"Then we came in right away and tried to keep the water flowing to them.
When the trees burned 50 feet from the control room window and the whole plant was full of smoke, the tired workers kept the reservoir and nine workers continued to work.
They wear dust shields and only remove them in the control room equipped with an air purifier.
The work is technical and requires critical thinking, says Muirhead.
But it is impossible to think 2, 3, 10 or 20 steps ahead of time, as they may only sleep for an hour or two for a long time.
He said that it is impossible to maintain a reservoir in every area of the city, especially in hard places.
Popular areas such as Abasand and Beacon Hill.
"We are called basic services.
"I can't represent all of us, and I can't represent all of us in the water industry, but we kind of take that to heart," Muirhead said . ".
"It's hard for us to stop caring.
We know it is important for firefighters to keep the water flowing because they are here with us and we are there with them.
"The crew lost control of some of the water supply facilities in the main plant and had to drive through the city to run the equipment manually.
He said that they drove past the burning buildings of the Biken mountains, and the remaining fire of abassandas fell around them.
No one wanted to be a hero two days ago and finally left Fort McMurray to eat the red deer.
Five operators and two Foreman and factory manager remain at the factory, he said.
On Friday, Calgary announced that it would send three water treatment operators and a process engineer to help the rest of the crew.
Muirhead has been remotely logging into the computer system at the factory to help with the operation.
He monitored the factory from a distance and provided support to the people who stayed there by phone.
Edmonton rallied near the Fort McMurray fire evacuation zone, where the Fort McMurray wildfire created its own lightningHe, still can tell how much water the distribution system has been squeezed out to fill the reservoir and water pump,
He knows which parts of the system are still running.
Still, he said that although personal reasons forced him to leave, he felt bad about leaving the team.
Like a child's bike, it's still intact when everything around it is burned --
Once full of the dawn of the life of the city and the lonely buildings of the future.
"No one wants to be a hero," Muirhead said . ". "Ifwe can . . .
For those firefighters, for those houses, for those precious moments, for those people, for those precious memories, keep the water flowing. . .
They can go home and the children's things are still there.
"We need water. The city needs water. firefighters need water.
We have to keep going.
As long as we can.