{"id":885168,"date":"2026-09-06T05:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T05:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/885168\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T05:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T05:24:14","slug":"sask-public-safety-agency-being-handed-50m-more-for-flooding-and-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/885168\/","title":{"rendered":"Sask. Public Safety Agency being handed $50M more for flooding and wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/162f25a4-63b7-4088-8d41-d6f9c726153e.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The public safety agency is being given $50 million, over and above what was budgeted in the spring, split between wildfire and flooding responses. Highway 47 south of Buchanan. (Image Credit: Colin Pas\/Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>By Lisa Schick\/CJME<\/p>\n<p>special warrant<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSep 5, 2026 | 10:21 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Just five months after presenting its budget, the provincial government is signing off on an extra $50 million in spending for the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency.<\/p>\n<p>A special warrant was signed at the end of last month to authorize the money for the Ministry of Community Safety, which will be put into the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half, $21 million, will be used for Provincial Disaster Assistance Program (PDAP) claim payments for severe flooding that parts of the province are still trying to recover from.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said the program has approved 172 designations this year, working with nearly 600 local authorities and private residents. That\u2019s while the 10-year average for PDAP claims in a year is 43.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The public safety agency is being given $50 million, over and above what was budgeted in the spring,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-885168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}