A two year struggle prevailed for the Moose Jaw Fire Fighters Association as they fought to keep the hyperbaric chamber in the friendly city and that's our #4 story of the year.

The association was disappointed to hear the news in 2013 that there would not be room in the new hospital for the unit.

"We really try to be committed to this community and the safety of this community, we want the citizens of Moose Jaw to have this", says Association President Gord Hewitt. "I couldn't be more proud of all of our fire fighters for stepping up like this, you know were a small organization but its the largest donation we've ever made but we promised the government we were committed to it, so I hope this reaffirms that commitment and to them and the residents of this city."

Following the news a fundraiser quickly launched to try and raise funds for the addition to the new hospital.

Hewitt believes the success they received in getting the addition for the unit was a group effort by many local people.

"We've had lots of meetings with the MLA's, we went to the legislature there, Jim Conolly from the Kinsmen foundation started making presentations, certainly Dr.Amies presentation at city counsel, the city coming on board. We had a couple posts on our Facebook page that collectively drew you know almost 70,000 views and it just seemed with the momentum out there, something positive was going to happen."

The local Fire Fighters Association has been financially supporting the Hyperbaric unit since it was established in the Union Hospital in 1997 and the association was overjoyed when the construction began for the unit at the Wigmore Hospital.

"I was just thrilled, that's kind of what we had hoped would come out of this the whole way, and certainly for it not being so optimistic last year we were ecstatic."