 Hi, my name is Keith Lawson. So my name is Forrest Tower. I am Jeff Grote. My name is Jeremy Smith. My name is Kyle Young. My name is Kim Christiansen. My name is Megan Code. My name is Nathan Webb. My name is Nina Keelah. So my name is Sam Fujir. My name is Adam Silverstein. I am the incident commander here in Lillowette for the federal government. Information officer with BC Wildfire Service. So this time around at Unified Command, I was the provincial incident commander. I have a few roles, but my main role is looking at the natural hazards on the site. Permit holder for the archaeology program working with High Bar First Nation. Deputy incident commander for the federal government with fisheries and oceans. I am the situation unit leader. I've been here for three tours of the Unified Command as the environmental unit lead. But I have been here previously as the logistics section chief. Document specialist. Operations section chief. I'm the deputy EU. We're responsible for reviewing the daily plans for the upcoming day and making sure that our key priorities for the incident, including making sure everybody works safely, making sure we're achieving natural fish passage, monitoring the stocks to ensure we're achieving passage and making sure our key objectives are achieved with the plans we develop each day. Organizing and communicating the goals for the rock scaling cruise on how to get down where we need to go safely. Organizing all of the documentation from all the organizations, making sure it's collected, organized, and kept safe. Support advance planning for the event and start working with the demobilization of some of the summer activities. My role is to provide advice regarding fish transport. We try to ensure that the fish that are being transported above the slide are done so efficiently. It's my job to keep up to date on everything that's going on during the day. So while everyone's thinking about tomorrow, I'm keeping track of what's happening today. Clients, mostly First Nations, I mostly work with Indigenous organizations, hire me to help work through the regulatory process of archaeology in BC, usually in advance of development, but not always. And the environmental unit lead role has evolved over the time, but essentially it's served as the coordinator of all the technical expertise here on site for all aspects of the operation. I've learned mostly just about the whole emergency response system, the program here. I've never been involved in emergency response before. And so just getting to see the structure and how everybody works together and to get the job done. So that's mostly what I've learned from the experience. So for me, one of the most important things I've learned is how much incident command structure can be used to get things done. And I think we've learned some important lessons about how we can operate even better in the future with that process. So I think for these complex responses that require engagement from First Nations in different levels of government, this is the process we need to use. It's one of the very first times, I think, that we've tried to do this at this scale. The thing that I've enjoyed the most about this experience is getting to explore the general incident and project area with the local First Nations field crews and finding significant intact archaeological sites that are sort of a direct evidence of their history and connection to the land. I think I've just enjoyed kind of seeing all the different organizations meeting new people. Normally with FIRE it's the same familiar faces every time I get deployed and sometimes you do get a bit sick of seeing the same people again and again. So it's been good to meet sort of different faces in government and learn what other organizations both federally and provincially kind of do in their day-to-day job. So it's been sort of interesting in that social aspect for sure. I've really enjoyed working with multiple agencies. It's the first time in my career that I've had an opportunity to work with different people, learn about what their roles are and it's been a fabulous experience seeing all these different groups get together for one common goal. It does get back to the people all about how to work with people, how to work with First Nations and other levels of government. I think the most enjoyable part of the incident command for me is how we've brought together all of the different organizations to collaborate and cooperate on this work. So at the incident command, we've got provincial, federal and First Nations leadership providing direction on everything we're doing. So all of those levels of government are involved and we're really able to leverage the strengths that the different organizations can bring to the projects. So First Nations have been very actively involved in the engagement with the local communities. We've got archeological monitors out there helping us and First Nation fishing crews were helping us to catch and transport fish. BC government and the wildfire group has been amazing at mobilizing resources and helping to get things done on the ground. At the federal level, we've had Coast Guard and DFO staff that have brought their skills, particularly Coast Guard around incident command keeping us all organized and DFO around the technical expertise. But what we need to be doing to help restore passage for the fish. And of course there have been numerous technical experts and contractors involved helping with the work. So it's been really amazing to see how everyone can really pull together for a common cause and to see what we've been able to accomplish together. The lessons I've learned is everyone has a different skill set and we're able to pull a little bit from each person and to make a functioning organization no matter what area of government you come from or different parts. So it's been a pretty cool experience that way to be able to do that as an organization and make this incident run smoothly all summer long. You kind of just have to make it work, right? You can have as many forms as you want. You can know the process backwards, forwards but at the end of the day, you just need to work to get the job done and whatever that means, you need to do it. How to create consensus? How to get decisions made? How to push things forward when you're working with such a diverse group of people and the three levels of government all together, five different agencies all together. It really comes down to that you gotta work. You gotta work together to get to a consensus to move forward. So that's been a unique learning experience for me. This is what I think we need to do and it's a half formed idea and then they go and help me and us all come up with a better idea and away we go and it's worked, which is cool. It doesn't matter where you're from that people can work together and get along together and when there's a crisis, everybody pitches in to help. So that's been pretty amazing. The most amazing thing about this has been watching so many diverse people come together and work insanely hard for a really long period of time away from their families and their regular work to do something really important and really big. I've enjoyed the town and seeing how the town has embraced all the visitors that they've had. It's been very busy in town with a lot of people coming and going. I've really enjoyed working with the province. So for me, this is new. The province is amazing and the wildfire folks are just dynamic. They get the job done, fits well with Coast Guards mandate and what we do. So I think we've made a relationship of a long-term going down the road with incident management. So happy to be here.