00:00:00.000I want to go back to land management for a bit, because what would be the changes in forest management that will require such a sweeping ban of people being present in forest land?
00:00:15.800Well, I can give you some information.
00:00:17.420Beginning in, I think, around 2005, 2006 in Nova Scotia, every district office for Department of Natural Resources had five-man fire crews in the summer, and they got cut back to three.
00:00:29.460And then in 2012, we had a rapid response helitack team.
00:00:34.140So they're the best of the best firefighters that the province had.
00:00:37.240And they were positioned in the center of the province at fire control with a Bell 212 helicopter.
00:00:42.980And when a fire got called in, if conditions were extremely bad and it was in a remote area at all,
00:00:50.340that we would call helitack and they would be in the air within 15 minutes.
00:00:54.460And in many cases, they would be a rapid response team and first people on the fire.
00:01:00.140They would start a fire attack, and then the biggest helicopter the province had at the time would start dropping water.
00:01:05.420I've seen cases where they were on the fire battling it for one to two hours before ground crews were able to get there.
00:01:12.620And so what those guys did was they kept fires at three to four acres rather than turning into 30,000 to 40,000-acre fires.