The information—and that's what I spoke about—is key. The process for a large urban centre and a rural fire department operation needs to be the same, and that would be that when the public realizes an incident has taken place, they phone 911. When an emergency takes place out in the field or an urban centre, as a first responder our 911 is the immediate call, not the Internet.
There needs to be an immediate call to CANUTEC to advise that there's a train derailment on the line. They also need to be told the location of the incident. Because we're trained to an awareness level, we can give information on the type of car that's being used and the products that are on that train. From that, they can give us initial isolation distances and how to react to that situation appropriately. That's whether we're in the smallest community across Canada or in the largest urban centre.
That information sharing and the necessity of ensuring that these chemists provide that vital information to our emergency responders is absolutely key.