Alberta man with fire truck ready to defend community this wildfire season [Video]

There is still bad blood in one county west of Edmonton over the municipality’s response to the historic 2023 Alberta wildfires.

Thirty-six homes were destroyed in Yellowhead County and a survey of residents in the hardest hit area found just 13 per cent were satisfied with the county’s response to the disaster.

“When push comes to shove we’re not going to phone 911,” rancher Robin Callioux recently told CTV News Edmonton. “We are going to phone each other.”

Callioux has no firefighting training but said he spent weeks last year battling wildfires alongside 50 to 60 of his neighbours.

“There was trucks. Pickups with tanks. I had a 1,700 gallon tank on that truck and trailer unit down there. And we just, we had a guy on 92 with a dugout, we all filled up there and it was like an orchestrated dance.”

“It was the most community support I have ever seen in my life,” he added.

Midsummer Callioux …