WATCH: Officials update Fiona damage and recovery efforts on Monday, Sept. 26
Officials will be hosting a video conference Monday to update the latest on Fiona damage and recovery efforts.
It's starts at 12:30 p.m.
Participants include:
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- Jason Mew, Director, Incident Management Division, Nova Scotia Emergency Management Office
- Matt Drover, Storm Lead, Nova Scotia Power
- Rear Admiral Brian Santarpia, Joint Task Force Atlantic Commander, Canadian Armed Forces
- Christina Lamey, Communications and Information Officer, Cape Breton Regional Municipality
- Erica Fleck, Assistant Chief, Emergency Management, Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency
- Bill Lawlor, Director, Government Relations, Canadian Red Cross
Here in Halifax, there's no classes today for public school students as power outages linger. A lot of post-secondary students also have the day off and there are still many other closures and cancellations.
Halifax Regional Police continue to ask drivers to stay off the roads if possible, as there are still downed power lines, trees and debris on streets.
The municipality has also set up eight debris drop-off locations. Trees located on private property are the sole responsibility of the homeowner. The municipality is not responsible for removing brush and debris from private property.
And as of Tuesday, the acceptable amount of branch bundles associated with organics collection has doubled, so residents may set out 10 branch bundles on their organics collection day.
The Canada Games Centre remains open to residents impacted by structural damage to their homes.
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In addition, there are a number of comfort stations open in HRM.
