A year after her son died, Tera Sisco does not believe the Nova Scotia government has made significant improvements to the alert system's timeliness.
The mother of a young Nova Scotia boy who died in floodwaters last November is pushing for urgent changes to the province’s emergency alert system. It took nearly two hours for an alert to go out as torrential rains devastated the province. Six-year-old Colton Sisco was among the four people killed.
A recent review released by the municipality of West Hants said two hours and 41 minutes passed between the first rescue responses and the province sending an alert urging citizens to “shelter in place.” Blair Feltmate, director of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo has called that “far too long a delay.
However, Sisco said the bottom line is that government, a year later, didn’t seem to have made significant improvements to the alert system’s timeliness.“It’s a finger pointing thing currently, and I feel like ultimately all levels of government need to sit down and really focus on how we move forward to fix the problem, rather than play the blame game,” she said.
Lohr said the Nova Scotia Guard will permit citizens to enter themselves in a database indicating skills they can offer after emergencies — “whether handling a chainsaw or making sandwiches” — and he said the province would call upon the volunteers when needed.Sisco is concerned potential firefighters, who carry out crucial rescues during emergencies, may choose to join the new volunteer group rather than take on the heavier training workload in the fire or rescue services.
“A year from now, my expectation is that we’ll have the Nova Scotia Guard … we’ll have a new department; we’ll have fire services trained with this tool,” said the minister.
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