Wildfires

GINTA – Grateful for our local farmers, blue skies, and firefighting crews

July 23, 2021 // 0 Comments

THIS ONE TWEET among the countless ones on social media caught my eye a few days ago. It was Tuesday, and the fires around Kamloops were once again getting rowdy and there [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – We are being tested by smoke, fire, heat and disease

July 22, 2021 // 1 Comment

AS WE EMERGE from the pandemic, Kamloopsians expect that summer, especially this summer, will be liberating. After being cooped up all winter, carefully cloistering ourselves [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Lessons to learn from the overdue state of emergency

July 21, 2021 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. AFTER MUCH RESISTANCE, the provincial government has finally declared a state of emergency, effective today, due to the wildfires consuming [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Those who deliberately set wildfires should go to jail

July 19, 2021 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. UNTIL WE START throwing people in jail for starting wildfires, we’re going to be fighting a losing battle with what has become an annual [Continue]

PETERS – B.C. State of Emergency needed for practical, symbolic reasons

July 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

IT MIGHT BE STUBBORNNESS, it might be ignorance, or it might be embarrassment that is preventing politicians from declaring a provincial State of Emergency in B.C., [Continue]

WILDFIRES – CP statement on TSB investigation into Lytton fire

July 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

Canadian Pacific today (July 16, 2021) issued the following statement on the Transportation Safety Board of Canada’s (“TSB”) rail transportation safety [Continue]

GINTA – Lessons from previous and present wildfire seasons

July 16, 2021 // 1 Comment

TODAY IS A HEAVY DAY. The morning held a cleaner air promise for a bit but that dissipated towards lunch time when the smoke grew thicker and heavier than it’s been [Continue]

TNRD – Regional board votes to ask for B.C. state of emergency to fight fires

July 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

The Thompson-Nicola Regional District board of directors unanimously passed a motion today (July 15, 2021) asking the provincial government to declare a provincial state of [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Unfounded rumours are spreading like wildfire these says

July 10, 2021 // 0 Comments

THE RUMOUR MILL doesn’t need much encouragement to start churning, especially when people are nervous and uncertain about what’s going on around them. What’s going on [Continue]

PETERS – In the midst of its grief, Tk’emlups community exemplifies compassion

July 10, 2021 // 1 Comment

IT’S TIME WE SIT BACK AND CONTEMPLATE the marvel that is the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc community. Like most Indigenous communities where a residential school operated in the [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The cries of ‘climate change’ depend on the weather

July 8, 2021 // 0 Comments

THE RECENT HEAT WAVE and subsequent fires have provided an opportunity to remind climate change deniers that it’s real. The incineration of Lytton has captured global [Continue]

WILDFIRES – Lytton residents to get a bus tour of their village on Friday

July 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

A tour of the Lytton area is being arranged for Friday, July 9 for evacuated residents. While the TNRD says the area is still not safe for unescorted entry, work has been [Continue]

BEPPLE – We remember heroics but logistics are what win the day

July 7, 2021 // 2 Comments

VIMY RIDGE, Passchendaele, Ypres, Hill 70. It is the great battles that people remember. It is the heroics of those on the front lines that are remembered. No one [Continue]

WILDFIRE – Statement from Village of Lytton describes aftermath of fire

July 6, 2021 // 3 Comments

Statement from the Village of Lytton, July 6, 2021: Thank you all for your patience while we have sorted through incoming information and confirmed facts about the state of [Continue]