Frustrated residents sound off

WHEATLEY — Residents directly affected by the downtown explosion were urged to call into CKLW’s The Dan Mac- Donald Show on Monday morning and they didn’t hold back.

Most callers who joined the popular call-in show expressed their disappointment in the lack of communication from Chatham-Kent in allowing — or not allowing — evacuees into their homes to retrieve valuables and necessities.

Experts on site banned residents from retrieving those items effective Monday, September 27, but according to callers, nobody was informed of that decision.

The frustration stems from not knowing that privilege was going to be discontinued suddenly and the huge loss in property that will occur from the length they’ve been out of their homes.