Tempers overflowed once more at a town hall meeting in High River on Thursday night as residents hoped to get answers about why RCMP broke into their homes this past June.

Many are demanding compensation for the damage done by RCMP officers who claim they were entering homes to make sure everyone made it out safely.

Wildrose leader Danielle Smith is backing them, saying that similar incidents didn’t occur anywhere else in the province and that her constituents should be compensated.

“This didn’t happen in Calgary. This didn’t happen in Medicine Hat. This didn't happen in Canmore. They didn't have the RCMP acting on its own to knock down people's doors,” said Smith.

Smith’s party hosted the meeting on Thursday night.

The meeting allowed residents to take their turn at the microphone to voice their anger over the actions of the RCMP.

"Over $1,600 - boy, was I angry. It's still not fixed and it says here, 'protecting property'," one man said at the meeting.

Leslie Watson, a High River resident for 10 years, says she tried to get into the community every day since they were evacuated, knowing that her home wasn't underwater but was denied every time by RCMP officers.

Mounties say they’ve received about 1,900 reports of damage to homes during the seizures.

Smith says the figures of damage have topped $3.6M and no one has paid anything, now 11 weeks since the flooding.

“The RCMP is contracted to the provincial government and if the RCMP doesn’t have the money to pay for this, the Premier is going to have to come up with compensation for these and so far no one has wanted to take responsibility.”

Staff Sergeant Ian Shardlow, of the High River RCMP says the force is listening to the concerns of the people. “I am here to help build things forward.”

Shardlow said that, as a RCMP member whose family has a long history in the force, the recent criticism has weighed heavy on his heart.

"I have daily conversations with my supervisors about the concerns. We recognized early on that the damage to the doors was going to be a significant issue and unfortunately some things are just difficult to deal with."

The RCMP asserts that its officers tried to minimize the amount of damage to each home they entered.

An internal investigation is already underway to determine why officers took weapons from the homes in the first place.