Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Part of the duties of the assistant fire marshal will be going into the communities and assessing some of their equipment, working with the communities to identify the life of their equipment, and possibly working with the communities to put that equipment into their capital plan. Obviously training, as the Member said, is huge. No point in having a fire truck in the community if you don’t have the training for it. That’s where we see in this part of the new program that I had mentioned to this House a few minutes ago, is training is a huge part of it and it’s something that we’re focusing on, and I think in the coming fiscal year we’re going to see progress in the area of training. That way, we don’t have situations where we have firefighters that are
untrained trying to operate equipment, going into buildings. We want to make sure that we stay away from that. It is something that is in the works. Equipment is a huge part.
I’ve been in a couple small communities where they’ve shown me the equipment that they’ve had and how they need to be trained to operate it. We take those very seriously and that’s part of why we wanted to make sure we had all the proper training in place for the equipment that’s there. Thank you.