Fire to floods: Edson declares local state of emergency due to massive rainfall
After being forced to evacuate twice in the the span of a month due to wildfires fuelled by dry conditions, residents in the town about 180 kilometres west of Edmonton are now dealing with an opposite extreme: too much water.
“Which is the types of rainfall you would see over a period of a month. So our infrastructure — no town infrastructure, city infrastructure — can handle that much water at that amount of time.”As of 1 p.m., the town said 13 properties had reported flooding. “Listen, folks. This has been incredibly difficult the last number of weeks…” he said, choking up and having to pause to collect himself.
Zahara said residents are dealing with flooded basements and homes and the flooding is taxing the town’s already exhausted resources.Click to share quote on Twitter: "We know this is a lot to deal with right now."“We have every available resource within the Town of Edson deployed right now. Many of them were working during the fires as well. So they are a bit taxed and we are looking at bringing additional resources in,” Zahara said.
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