'This is not helping': Frustrated evacuees say official communication lacking in wildfire recovery
CTV
Frustration is building among some people from neighbourhoods hardest-hit by the fires near Halifax. CTV's Heidi Petracek reports.
Seventeen-year resident Peter Dominey hasn't been allowed into his Yankeetown subdivision to see his fire-damaged property yet, which made it even more shocking for him to see footage of it on the news.
“I got quite upset, by whoever made that decision,” said Dominey.
He says officials never told him media would tour the fire-ravaged neighbourhood before the residents could.
For him, it’s one communication failure among many since the massive wildfire tore through suburban Halifax 10 days ago.
“This is not helping,” he says. “Let people in to see their homes, I mean, surely somebody could reach out and contact us.
“It's adding more pressure to an already overwhelming time,” said Brandon MacLeod, a fellow evacuee.
MacLeod knows his home is gone, but that didn’t make it any easier to see it on the front page of the newspaper.
