The P.E.I. government has announced a Major Incident Readiness Team, bringing together several government departments to prepare for future weather-related disasters.
Chaired by Public Safety Minister Bloyce Thompson, MIRT includes ministers and deputy ministers from finance, housing, infrastructure and environment.
The team will work to make P.E.I. ready for the next Fiona-level storm, said Thompson, and began to come together in the spring when wildfires were burning out of control in Nova Scotia.
“We’ve been working since the last storm on our response and this is just part of our response,” said Thompson.
