A new report prepared for the M.D. of Pincher Creek is highly critical of the response by emergency officials to the Kenow wildfire back in September.

The report says poor communication and a lack of cooperation between outside agencies and municipal officials led to a lack of information getting to either M.D. officials or the public.

Livingtsone/Macleod MLA Pat Stier says it was the same story he saw in the Fort McMurry and Slave Lake fires along with the High River Floods.

"You had so many big government agencies. You had Alberta Emergency Management, you had Parks Canada, you had Alberta Environment and Parks. You have of course the M.D. of Pincher Creek, which is the local authority once it came into Alberta. You had all these different people who had different protocols, but it didn't seem that they had learned how to seamlessly integrate into having a proper response."

Stier is asking the government to hold an inquiry and perhaps finally learn from these mistakes when another disaster crops up.