High winds, warm temperatures result in fire ban for Lethbridge's river valley

Despite the month of May seeing nearly 100 millimetres of rain, the City of Lethbridge has enacted a fire ban for the city’s river valley. “The winds we received on Tuesday, it just puts us in like a hair dryer,” explained Troy Hicks, chief fire marshal with Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services (LFES). “It dries out the ground very much. Every day we check the government's website on levels and the ratings down in the river bottom and here in the city of Lethbridge, and