Southwest Miramichi-Bay du Vin MLA Mike Dawson says local fire chiefs need a direct line to water bomber pilots
New Brunswick is at risk of suffering the same kind of forest fires that destroyed properties in Nova Scotia and the Northwest Territories this summer if it doesn’t improve emergency communications, says a Progressive Conservative politician.
“When there’s a call for a forest fire, why isn’t DNR dispatched the same as police, ambulance and fire?” Dawson told Brunswick News this week.
One of the fire chiefs for the area – whom Dawson preferred not to name – knew the area well and called a person he was acquainted with working with the pilots, who on that day were practising in Miramichi. “When there’s a call for a forest fire, why isn’t dispatched the same as police, ambulance and fire?”Dawson pointed to the more than four million hectares, or close to 10 million acres, of forest that have burned in the Northwest Territories so far this year, causing the capital of Yellowknife to be evacuated for several weeks.
Another big fire closer to Halifax destroyed close to 200 homes. All told, more than 16,000 people were temporarily evacuated in the worst fires Nova Scotia has seen in generations.
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