This is fire county, so we’re perhaps more prepared than Nepal is for Tsunamis, but still Lytton apparently has 1 fire truck, there are fires all over the province so we’re not all just focusing on Lytton, and this swept the town in ~15 minutes. Sprinklers aren’t going to cut it. These are massive fires.
You should see what we do in Alberta when a town is under threat. Forestry sprinklers all over, town goes into fire smart mode, all brush cleared and so on. We learned a lot when slave lake and Fort mac burned.