The Friends of Beacon Hill Park Society is accusing the City of Victoria of trying to prevent it from adequately arguing its case in court that sheltering in the park should not be allowed. Roy . . .
Victoria councillors voted Thursday to ban sheltering in Beacon Hill Park for at least two years to allow the area to be restored after people were allowed to set up tents during the pandemic. . . .
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Max said he normally leaves the burner in a pot, but he forgot to do that Thursday night. “Unless I forget, that’s what I do. So if it does tip over, it won’t go all over the place,” he said. He planned to set up a new tent for shelter in another area of the park. No one was injured in the fire, which broke out across from South Park Elementary School shortly after 7:30 p.m. Someone walking in the park spotted the flames and ran to a fire hall on Michigan Street to report it. Firefighters were on scene within minutes and found the tent and surrounding debris fully engulfed, with flames shooting almost 10 metres in the air.
By Friday afternoon, crews in white hazmat suits had mostly cleaned up the site of a fire in Beacon Hill Park that destroyed a tent and burned a nearby tree. A camper named Max, who has been . . .