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Use of emergency alerts under scrutiny again after Nova Scotia floods

aims to warn people about emergency events, the only flood update came Saturday evening, and it wasn’t used at all during the recent wildfires.

“We always take our lessons learned and look at those. So communications can always be improved at every level – whether that’s staff, different levels of government, with the public – there’s always room for improvement, every single time.” Fairbairn, the spokesperson for the Emergency Management Office, would not say how much time elapsed between when the province received requests from the municipalities, and when the alerts were actually issued.

Speaking with reporters Thursday, NDP leader Claudia Chender said the recent storm highlighted the “failure of our cell system across the province.”

 

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