‘Be vigilant’: Counselling encouraged for Fort Smith residents after deadly plane crash
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Local education authorities have since taken steps to provide additional support for the town's children and teens.
The deadly plane crash that rocked residents of a small town in the Northwest Territories has left no part of the community unscathed, including local schools.
Flags flew at half-mast Saturday at Joseph B. Tyrrell Elementary School in Fort Smith in memory of the six people killed when their charter plane crashed shortly after takeoff on Tuesday.
The aircraft had just taken off from Fort Smith and was en route to the Diavik Diamond Mine when it hit the ground and caught fire. Photos released by the Transportation Safety Board show a rubble-strewn crash site, with the plane’s tattered fuselage lying in a heavily wooded area just west of town.
Local education authorities — aware the crash was just the latest in a string of potentially upsetting events in recent months — have since taken steps to provide additional support for the town’s children and teens.
The South Slave Divisional Education Council took immediate action to provide emotional support for students once news of the accident became public.
“In the end we basically had the same concerns about our students, our teachers, our administrators, our community, our family. It definitely affects everybody,” School Superintendent Souhail Soujah told The Canadian Press.
“We’ve asked our teachers to be vigilant for any student that wanted to speak about it or actually wanted to have a conversation about it, because information and the news made its way through the community fairly quickly.”
Fort Smith has two schools: the elementary school serving about 280 students and the Paul Kaeser High School with about 240 students between grades 7 and 12.
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