I was monitoring BPS, BFES, and MOH at the time. Barrie Fire patched TACs 1 and 2 until unrelated calls started coming in, and was assigning TAC 1 and TAC 3 for those. I was going to post my live updates here but I did that on my Snapchat. All my friends and acquaintances were blowing up my phone and social media asking for questions, so I felt partially responsible for making sure they had up to date information and advised them to stay away due to traffic concerns from Barrie Fire as well as possible energized wires.
My father works at the RONA on Mapleview just a few kilometers from the touchdown site. The wind picked up a cart corral and sent it into the back of his friend Dave's wife's new Mazda. This was a photo from the first day he brought it to work:
