Fort McMurray wildfire response review will be complete next summer
Posted Sep 29, 2016 12:24 pm.
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A review into how the Alberta government responded to the Fort McMurray wildfire is expected to be complete next summer.
May’s fierce and unpredictable fire forced nearly 90,000 people out of the northeastern Alberta city for a month and destroyed 10 per cent of its structures.
The province is looking for a contractor to conduct an independent review into what went well, and what didn’t, during the disaster.
It is to look at support the province provided to the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, the evacuation of communities and emergency social services for evacuees.
The province undertook similar reviews after the 2011 Slave Lake wildfire and the 2013 floods in southern Alberta.
A separate review is being done by the province’s Agriculture and Forestry Department into wildfire preparation, readiness and response.
