Simpcw Indigenous Initial Attack Crew
Just north of Kamloops, B.C., sits Chu Chua, home of the Simpcw First Nation and the first Indigenous Initial Attack (IIA) crew for the BC Wildfire Service (BCWS).
Just north of Kamloops, B.C., sits Chu Chua, home of the Simpcw First Nation and the first Indigenous Initial Attack (IIA) crew for the BC Wildfire Service (BCWS).
The Thompson-Nicola Regional District spent more than $5.2 million – twice as much as in 2017 – dealing with this summer’s wildfires, which wiped out Lytton and Monte Lake and threatened other cities and towns across the region including Ashcroft, Spences Bridge and 70 Mile House.
Experts point to the wildland-urban interface as the area we need to think about
Fire ecologists and some First Nations say prescribed and cultural burns will help reduce B.C.'s fuel load
‘There was so much burning going on (once) and it resulted in all kinds of different vegetation types … And so that historic landscape was basically vaccinated against large-spread fire’