Wildfires

ROTHENBURGER – Horgan needs to see and be seen during wildfire crisis

August 18, 2021 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. FEELING IGNORED is nothing new for the B.C. Interior but it would be nice if the provincial government would make more of an effort to show [Continue]

WILDFIRES – From the perspective of a BC Wildfire Service incident commander

August 14, 2021 // 8 Comments

The following was posted as a series of tweets by Kamloops-based incident commander Kyle Young: My name is Kyle Young and I am an Incident Commander with the #BCWildfire [Continue]

GINTA – Resiliency, self-reliance are not outlandish concepts; they’re necessary

August 13, 2021 // 2 Comments

IT IS SAID that there are at least two sides to every story. The story of the fire that burned through the Monte Lake community and the Paxton Valley is one of them and it is [Continue]

KNOX – Wildfire reality is slow to sink in outside the B.C. Interior

August 8, 2021 // 4 Comments

I CAN’T THINK of Monte Lake without thinking of the log boom. Wouldn’t want to slip between the logs, my mother said as we drove past. You might not find your way back [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – If you were told to leave everything behind, would you?

August 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

IF A MASSIVE WILDFIRE was roaring towards your home, and you were told to evacuate, would you? A surprising number wouldn’t. As crews fought — unsuccessfully, in large [Continue]

PETERS – Are we finally ready to agree on climate change?

August 7, 2021 // 1 Comment

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc revelation of unmarked graves near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site has been said before. It’s not that [Continue]