Wildfire exercise helps prepare Alberta officials
It was all hands on deck Wednesday as more than 150 officials took part in an exercise ahead of wildfire season.
“You can never be too prepared,” said Scott Long, spokesman for the Alberta Emergency Management Agency.
The annual exercise — which incorporated about 100 people at the provincial operations centre in Edmonton and more than 50 in Grande Prairie — simulated what would happen if a fire had affected six communities in Grande Prairie County over fi
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