May 2, 2024
As a hot summer looms, provincial resiliency training has already kicked off.
As B.C. heads into what is predicted to be a hot summer, the need to build wildfire resiliency is a top priority across the province. Last week’s FireSmart Wildfire Resiliency and Training Summit in Prince George brought together representatives from municipal governments, fire departments and other stakeholders to discuss insights from last year and what communities can do to recover, rebuild and repair.
Lucy Grainger, FireSmart BC’s education officer, was glad to see a broad range of representatives at the summit — including fire chiefs and members from Indigenous emergency service groups that don’t often get to be in the same room at the same time.
“It’s been pretty siloed for a long time,” she said. “With increasing fire seasons and with more and more interface fires where the forest is directly impacting communities, there is way more need for all these folks to work together.”
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