Mountain View County (MVC) has not been asked to send any emergency personnel or equipment to help with the fire fighting efforts in Fort McMurray, CAO Tony Martens told county councillors May 4.
More than 1,000 structures have reportedly been burned and destroyed in Fort McMurray after wildfires swept into the northern Alberta town on May 3. The county has received a message from Alberta Emergency Management requesting that residents not self-dispatch to the fire area, he said.
Al Kemmere, president of the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties and a MVC county councillor, said residents wanting to help should consider making financial donations to the Red Cross.
He said the association is working with UFA to get fuel to Fort McMurray for use by emergency personnel.
“We are doing the best we can,” said Kemmere.
The county is also encouraging residents who want to help to make cash donations to the Red Cross.
Red Deer County has not been asked to send any personnel or equipment to Fort McMurray.
“We would like to remind firefighters not to self-deploy,” county spokesperson Adam Ferguson told the Gazette May 4.
