Earl Burneau VE6EPJ prepared the military response from the Cormack Armouries in Red Deer and was able to come up on amateur frequencies if needed. As Red Cross teams began to arrive from Edmonton and Calgary, Registration and Inquiry phones were slowly handed over to Red Cross Volunteers and Staff. Continuous radio operations were maintained until the last of the evacuees had been transported to Red Deer reception centres after 3 AM on Saturday Morning. The sheer force of a compact multi vortex tornado is demonstrated in this picture of debris in the Green Acres campground at Pine Lake, Alberta Monday morning saw a change in the nature of the operation. Farmers along the tornado's path had been impacted by everything from the loss of their homes and farm buildings to being unable to harvest crops due to debris that the tornado had dumped on their fields.
Many crops are now ready to harvest.
The farmers, who had largely been ignored during the rescue operations at the campground now became the focus of a massive volunteer effort to sweep the farms of tornado debris, restore power to farm equipment such as milking systems and help return livestock to the proper owners. Garry McCallum VE6PNQ logging traffic to VE6RCR at the Red Cross Office in Red Deer. The station handled traffic requesting the acquisition and delivery of food, water, ice, sunscreen and insect repellent to the hundreds of volunteers in the field from July 18 to July 21. VE6OX owns a residence at the south end of Pine Lake less than 1 kilometre from the devastated campsite. Garry Jacobs VE6CIA established a cross band repeater using the tower, antennas and solar panels at the VE6OX home location.