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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
A more valuable truth: in circumstances like these, more trained disaster relief personnel is better than less.
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Not necessarily, having more people in the area can also lead to more congestion and a decreased ability to properly evacuate the area. In this instance having more people wouldn't do anything and this should be seen as a massive success considering that there were no human lives lost. The only thing that could be done differently would be the creation of massive firebreaks previously but even then I don't know how much good that would do considering the windspeed. The greatest blessing at this time is the fact that highway 63 was recently twinned allowing for twice the vehicle traffic to leave the area. If not for this the disaster could have been even worse with a significant loss of lives.