They were told early on that more command staff could be needed. A team of four from Saint John, headed to Plaster Rock early Thursday Morning, including Deputy Chief Joe Armstrong.
He tells us, the Saint John team helped develop about fifteen incident action plans.
"We were glad too, that we could assist. We could go up there and we could help CN and more importantly help the community, so that the evacuees could get back into their homes safely," he says.
He tells us the situation was handled very well. Especially since, there were no injuries to anyone that lived in the area or any of the crews members.
