Mr. Chair, we had all of our emergency personnel, obviously, working. We had firefighters, paramedics and our bylaw officers who still had to get in there. We had our traffic people, public works people.... We still had snowplow operators.... All of our services were still trying to function in and around that area.
I can tell you that even back into our emergency operations centre, the people that were embedded with the National Capital region command centre, everybody felt exhausted after that event was over. I don't know if it's PTSD or what's happened to them psychologically, but there was a collective exhaustion. We really felt—and people have used this expression—that we were “on our knees” after that. The emotional trauma from that event was significant for everybody.