In a month Thompson will be full of military personnel taking part in a ground search and rescue exercise. The 38 Canadian Brigade Groups Arctic Company Response Company will be stationed here from August 22nd until august 27th.
Major Mike Lagace, Senior Public Affairs Officer talks here about the exercise.
“We are going to be coordinating with the Office of the Fire Commissioner because they would be the lead agency on a search for a lost person. What we’re going to do is we’re going to be exercising that search coordination. It’s really a communication coordination with the fire commissioner, as well as practicing our own techniques with ATVs and everything else.”
Around 100 part time soldiers from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Thunder Bay will take part. The headquarters for the exercise will be located in Thompson, but the exercises will happen 50km west of the city.
Legace says this is an important partnership between the Armed Forces and the Fire Commissioner. He says once more details are set in stone an open house will happen in Thompson to let residents know all the details.
