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Originally Posted by greyshep

If by some miracle they actually were able to travel at mach speed, setup and dive and find the guy, the absolute best case would have been rescuing what would amout to a vegetable for the rest of his life.

CFD Dive teams have access to STARS to be transported to sites.

Originally Posted by para transit fellow

Calgary fire department has been telling the surrounding communities sometheing along the lines of " we have enough on our plate, you have to look after yourselves for primary services but we are happy to help with any mutual assistance calls."

Because of this, the small volunteer fire departments around Calgary are going professional and the small towns have developed collaboration agreements for emergency services and non-emergency services like Victim recovery. When Chestermere FD went full-time, they dropped the boat because it wasn't used very much and the the amount of training was put to other things.

I think the Calgary Firefighter was out of line with the remark. THey certainly didndn't get to the lady who drowned at the edworthy park bridge last summer (or was that the summer before). I would gather that remarks are out of frustration, no one in the business likes to hear of a bad outcome.

I'm well aware of the politics between CFD and these parasite communities FD. That being said, the mutual aid agreements between these communities are pretty detailed and both sides should be well aware of what the other can offer. The dive team services southern alberta and obviously for various recovery/rescue missions. Obviously Chestermere needs to reevaluate if they need a boat team back.