By Mark Squibb
Witless Bay council has approved an extension to the town’s volunteer fire department’s response zone.
During last week’s meeting, which the public was unable to attend via teleconferencing due to technical problems, council ratified an earlier e-mail vote to add a stretch of approximately 11 kilometres of the Southern Shore Highway near La Manch to the fire department’s response zone.
The Ferryland department will also respond to accidents along the same stretch of highway.
Council deferred voting on the matter back in November so that it could discuss the proposed amendment with Fire Chief Jack Gatherall before casting a vote.
The department, which boasts about 30 members, all of them volunteers save the chief, serves Witless Bay, Bay Bulls, Tors Cove, Bauline, Mobile, and Burnt Cove-St Michaels-Bauline East.
