Fighting fire with fire
How a B.C. Indigenous community is reintroducing traditional fire knowledge and practices to manage land vulnerable to wildfires
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OUR HOMETOWN: Matt Lees enjoys working and living in Williams Lake
At the suggestion of his best friend at the time, Matt Lees applied to work at the Cariboo Fire Centre when he was 18 and was hired on for the summer as a firefighter.
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).
B.C. to bolster wildfire budgets by $517 million over three years
Good Fire: Revitalizing Cultural Burning
Summer wildfires twice as costly than 2017
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.
Okanagan Indian Band planning to expand use of prescribed burns
How Indigenous ‘cultural burns’ can replenish our forests
Prescribed burns aren’t just for fire protection, Penticton Indian Band councillor says
No, we can’t fireproof towns and cities — but here’s how we can make them more resilient
Experts point to the wildland-urban interface as the area we need to think about