Thank you, Ms. Blaney. That's a very good last name.
Burnout for us is a very tough one, because we are a volunteer fire department within the community. Our community, through the treaty, negotiated a good amount of money for training and equipment, so we're very fortunate to have what we have in our community. A number of the other communities I work with do not have a volunteer fire department. Those are the ones I worry about, because there is no emergency operation centre training for many communities, and there is no incident command training for many of those communities.
When they are expected to step into EMBC with a task number and then look for the funding, they don't even know which paperwork to use. When that transition happened for indigenous services to pass the torch over to EMBC to manage emergencies within the province here, there was a major step missed in that there wasn't as much consultation as should have happened. There has been a real lack of training for front-line workers to participate in this paramilitary organized system.
I think what needs to happen is they need access to a roving emergency planning coordinator trainer, or some help to go into these communities and assist them in navigating the management system that has been put in place for us.