The North Bay Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic is honouring North Bay’s firefighters tomorrow for their efforts in extinguishing a fire at their downtown clinic location two years prior.
See: Major downtown fire
On December 20 2019, a fire lasting nearly nine hours occurred on Main Street East in North Bay’s downtown core. The fire took four buildings, and severely impacted the North Bay Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic’s downtown location.
The clinic’s event takes place on the two-year anniversary of the downtown fire, at the original site.
Jason Whiteley, Chief of North Bay Fire and Emergency Services, will receive a framed photo and plaque acknowledging the incredible efforts of Whiteley and the firefighters to save the clinic’s downtown building.
“A lot has happened in the last two years since the fire, and we want to properly thank and acknowledge [the firefighters] for their efforts with this event.” says Jaymie-Lynn Blanchard, Clinic Director and Nurse Practitioner for North Bay Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic.
Before reopening their downtown site on October 13, the clinic continued operating at their Lakeshore Dr. location. Since the fire, the downtown clinic site has accepted an additional 900 new patients.
