“I have relocated animals a couple of times and we’ve been up all night. I’ve slept maybe an hour. But as long as we can do something to at least try and save the area.'
“We had water bombers finally the other day for the first time and there was another flareup. We’ve had the helicopters with the buckets. We recognize there’s over 100 fires in Alberta, but there is no one helping us. We are helping ourselves.”
“The firefighters are out there working around the clock and we are bringing in more resources all the time,” said Christine Tucker“We are happy that additional resources are coming in today, tomorrow and Tuesday we will be seeing almost 200 additional firefighters over the next few days,” Tucker said.
“Alberta Emergency Management Agency has said they have sufficient resources and we are getting more resources in through a inter-agency partnership we have and the federal government has said they’re on standby,” Smith said Saturday afternoon. “Danielle Smith said we have $1.5 billion and we will get what we need. No, you won’t, because those people are already committed somewhere else. It takes years to train someone on rappel,” said Mike Dempsey, vice president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. The former wildland firefighter said many firefighters have moved to B.C. because staff are hired later in the season and laid off sooner in Alberta.
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