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The response time of emergency services in Burns Lake and the surrounding community has been a long-standing issue, and it came to ahead on July 14, 2021 around 8:50 p.m. when three teens were involved in a single vehicle rollover on Eakin Settlement Road in the Southside.
Southside resident Miranda Morgan, whose son was involved in the accident, outlined the issues that were faced following the accident in regards to contacting emergency services in a Facebook post.
Lakes District News spoke to Morgan about the incident, who said that when 9-1-1 was called, there was initially no answer. “My son ran home, and grabbed a truck from the house and picked up the boy that was ejected from the vehicle during the roll over, who was unconscious at the time. They immediately started calling all of us — the parents of the kids involved,” she said. “They did reach one of the other mothers who went to our home. The kids had been trying to call 9-1-1 from the landline and no answer…
