With a heavy heart I asked other disaster managers that worked the #JasperWildfire straight up why mutual aid from Edmonton and larger departments like St Albert and Red Deer was not requested (I was with EFRS at the time and know for a fact we had trucks ready to go... Trucks and crews that would have made a difference in the WUI). I was told first hand that it was the province that waited. That botched it. That refused to provide the most basic level of mutual aid until it was too late. We were sent to mop up an already devastated town.
Jasper is not the one that needs to apologize...
#wildfire #JASPER
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