Harley Vliegenthart was in Denare Beach on June 2 when the Wolf Fire ripped through town.

“We pulled out (at) around 1:30, thick smoke, 200-foot wall of flame, next to no reinforcements,” he said.

Vliegenthart travelled to the legislative building on Wednesday to stand with the Sask. NDP to call for a public inquiry into the provincial government’s response to the wildfires and the aftermath.

He didn’t mince words when describing the province’s response.

“Someone was asleep at the wheel, and it never got through to who it needed to get through to that this was a fire they’d never seen before. Lives were on the line, resources weren’t getting sent up and it was a failure through and through – a maelstrom of confusion, chaos, incompetence,” Vliegenthart said.

What he saw when trying to

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