I can only speak to the scientific tools that we provide to fire managers to prepare them for the situation.
One of the things that one does in fire management is track the weather and track the precipitation. In our systems of fire management and fire weather, Parks Canada, in our national public maps, did show the severe drought conditions and the acceleration of the fire from the lightning strikes to becoming a crown fire within minutes, which is what we see from the photo documentation of the fire.
That was anticipated by the systems that fire managers use every day. The fire accelerated and burned largely as anticipated given the environmental conditions.