Alberta Motor Association (AMA) vice-president of advocacy and operations, Jeff Kasbrick, said AMA has seen a 700-per-cent increase in call volumes since the cold snap hit the province on Sunday.
St. Albert has been blanketed with an icy blast of arctic air causing dead batteries and broken furnaces across the city.
All of Alberta, including St. Albert, is under an extreme cold warning after an arctic air mass descended on the province and temperatures drop into the -40 C range with the wind chill.
Steve Potvin, owner of SP Mechanical, said he has received a ton of calls from residents across the city complaining of no heat coming from their furnaces.
Typically Potvin gets six calls on an average winter day to go out and deal with furnaces, but with the cold snap he is getting 12 per day.
“It’s just [with the cold weather] furnaces are running much more,” Potvin…