The program once had 63 firefighters stationed around Alberta, including at Edson, Fox Creek and Lac La Biche. But it was cut in 2019 by the United Conservatives
“We could have been difference-makers,” said Jordan Erlandson, a former member of Alberta’s Rapattack team.
Dreeshen said at that time those figures suggest the rapattackers’ skills are better used from the ground. “This is an assessment of wildfires that rappel crews were deployed to that there were no other feasible means of getting to,” said one e-mail from a government forester. Alberta had initially planned to replace the Rapattack crews by dangling firefighters beneath flying helicopters and depositing them at the fire site. Transport Canada blocked that plan, saying it was too dangerous.
Erlandson pointed out rappel crews sometimes jump many times into the same fire as part of a large campaign. He estimates teams jumped up 20 times per fire and probably closer to 100 times on the fire that levelled parts of Fort McMurray in 2016.
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