Action now! Demands MSP Ewing of government as communities rally at Carrbridge and Grantown
As the community ‘armies’ recruited across Badenoch and Strathspey today, MSP Fergus Ewing became very overheated at the lack of support being given to the fight against our wildfires by government.
He told the Strathy: “Wildfires presently raging in the Highlands in my constituency and beyond are said by many locals to be the worst in our history.
Yesterday I asked Scottish Government ministers to convene the SGORR (Scottish Government Resilience Room) to be activated.
“This should coordinate the response to what is beyond question an emergency. I was told the situation was being monitored.
“Today- this morning - I repeated my plea. Monitoring is surely just not enough.
“Yesterday’s efforts were, for example , hampered through lack of helicopters.
“Today there is a multi-agency meeting in Grantown. More help is urgently needed. That help must be procured and ordered now without delay.
SGORR should therefore, in my view, be convened without delay.”
More on today’s Grantown meeting as it becomes available.
