Public safety minister says help likely on the way to those impacted by Fiona
CBC
New Brunswick's public safety minister said it will take time to fully calculate the damage caused by post-tropical storm Fiona, but he expects help will be made available to affected residents.
Bill Hogan told CBC News Network that there was a "significant" amount of coastal erosion and damage to infrastructure along the east coast of the province.
"Right now we're still in the process of evaluating how much damage [...] occurred in the province and then once we've completed that we'll look at a [disaster financial assistance] program if necessary," said Hogan.
"I would suspect at this point that that will be where we'll be headed, but we won't know that until probably later today or tomorrow."
Hogan said the province has reached out to the federal government for assistance and that Ottawa is prepared to help in any way it can.
While the storm clouds have passed over New Brunswick, the cleanup from post-tropical storm Fiona has just begun.
Many people began Sunday morning in the dark. N.B. Power is reporting 18,592 customers without power as of 10 a.m.
The bulk of the outages remain in the Shediac-Cap-Péle (7,085) and Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe regions (4,068).
Dominique Couture, spokesperson for N.B. Power, said heavy winds overnight prevented some crews from being able to access some power lines, which hindered restoration progress.
Still, crews were able to reduce the number of customers without power from Friday night's high of 95,000.
"Our crews continue to work hard to safely and efficiently restore power to all impacted customers," said Couture.
All three branches of the armed forces have been called in to help with the cleanup, according to the Department of National Defence.
Defence Minister Anita Anand said Saturday that forces at CFB Gagetown have been put on alert to help, if required.
"The Canadian Army's immediate response unit in Gagetown …has increased its readiness to move at short notice and deploy if called upon.
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