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Originally Posted by Dion
When the dust is settled and everything appears to be okay the news media doesn't report the numbers of people who didn't get help, fell through the cracks or just plain gave up. We had a lot of that in High River after that flood of 2013. Suicides, bankruptcy, substance abuse etc.
Local charities didn't have enough funds to help those that needed it.
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There is no way for local charities to ever have enough money to support everyone with everything in a crisis situation. In fact having a single centralized organization such as the Red Cross prevents there from being a significant amount of waste which can be associated with local charities, many of whom while having good intentions have extremely poor execution.
I can only speak for research done in extreme disaster response on an international level (ie post Tsunami and Haiti earthquake - both of which were magnitudes worse), but having a large charity with experience is better than having 20 smaller charities with no experience.
There has been nothing to suggest that the Red Cross has done anything but an exemplary job so far and fulfilling their mandate, which is immediate response. In the case of wild fires, now it is going to fall in large part to insurance companies to settle claims.