About two years after the destruction of 200 structures, including 151 houses in the west suburb of HAL Lifax, residents are concerned about the slow progress of the city to make more ways of the city if the flames return.
Behind his child-care center, the spring of 33 was rebuilt after the death of the wild fire, the owner Donna Buckland said in a recent interview that there was an emergency plan that will escape the staff and 68 children in the case of fire.
But she is uncomfortable that Halifax does not have a “a sophisticated” exit route to the outer areas of its Westwood Hills suburb – where the wild fire broke out on May 28, 2023 – however, Federal Research has noted that the area has dried up in the past year.
The City Council has recently approved the 7 2.7-Millian Emergency Road exit for Westwood Hills, but it is located about two existing exit-and about three kilometers away from the Child-Care Center in Buckland.
Buckland and other residents of nearby communities whose interviews were interviewed by the Canadian Press say more changes are needed. All of them have memories of the 2023 spring, while the heat dome and the Tinder-dray forests fed on the outside of the capital of Nova Scotia. Home owners, shocked at the speed of spread, faced a traffic jam while trying to escape from their neighbors. More than 16,000 people were evacuated.
“It’s not okay. The Halifax Regional Municipality has to treat this seriously. A crisis is not enough to exit. They want something behind the sub -section,” Buckland said.
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About 12 km from Buckland’s Deker, Julie Davis has the same fears and frustrations about limited escape options in White Hills and Hammonds Plains sub -sections.
After months of fire, Davis learned the main migration plan for his daughter’s school, bringing students to only one of the two, feeding the adjacent adjacent exits in the main road. She predicted that if the fire reaches her area, both will be blocked by Blaze, and the main road would be gridlock.
Davis said that the existing evacuation plan is not safe, adding that an option is to create a access to the existing dirt road owned by the HAL Lifax Water, which exits the suburbs from the main road. “It is a temporary, emergency solution that can be part of a big plan,” he said in an interview on Tuesday.
Davis contacted the Hal Lifax Regional Council for Education, in which he told him that he would bring his suggestions to Halifax’s Emergency Management Office Fissure. The council sent letters to the city’s Emergency Office Fissure last January, but Davis said there was no answer to his thoughts.
“After about two years of reviews and reports, HAL Lifax Regional Council for Education, Municipality, Emo and Province still not a practical plan that considers the lack of emergency claims (for school).
Emergency Management Office Fiss Fissure Director Roy Holet said in an email that the plan to evacuate for the western suburbs of the city is “expected before the end of the year.”
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Still, the counter. John Young, who represents the white hills and hamond plains area, says the answers to residents’ concerns are not good or fast. “This is not seen as a high priority, which it should be,” he said.
Young said that in the budget for road work in the 2025-26 financial year, connector roads should be funded between the outer edge of the range of suburbs, which residents need to escape from the wildfire.
He is also concerned about the fire hydrants of the upper hamonds of his district and his ability to provide sufficient water at sufficient pressure to fight the fire. In an email to the city’s media relationship in the department, “the design limits the fire protection to the community according to the design.”
The email added that “discussions are going on” with the province, the water authority and other agencies to upgrade the main water supply and establish more hydrants.
However, “the concrete plan is no longer in place,” Young said in an interview on Monday.
Counter .. Nancy Heartling, which represents a part of the western suburbs that was ruined by fire, said in an interview that he agreed with the citizens about the urgency of finding solutions, and added that the subject was its top priority.
He said that in the last two years there have been several improvements to fire prevention and fire extinguishers, including four new firefighters in the area, including added devices and gear that can be used for wild fire. The Natural Resources Department has also improved equipment, fire fighter training and has been committed to replacing the fleet of four helicopter water bombers in the next three years.
However, Daniel, a resident of the White Hills, lives for Newbury. He said he hoped for a short road extension that would have linked its area to the neighboring development of Indigo coast, allowing residents to have an alternative route for safety.
“It’s a study one by one. They do meetings, they bring people in … they say that people own the land privately and they cannot get hands on it, or companies will not free it for development.”
“You cannot grow and grow in population and provide the necessary infrastructure.”
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