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Provincial state of emergency declared due to wildfires SHARE ON: The B.C. government is declaring a provincial state of emergency as wildfires rage on in the province. Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, made the declaration today (July 20th) based upon the recommendation from the BC Wildfire Service and Emergency Management BC.  Farnworth says this will address the potential for a mass evacuation scenario and “provide our government with the means to secure the accommodations spaces necessary to support the evacuees.” The SOE will be in effect starting tomo...

Provincial state of emergency declared SHARE ON: The B.C government has declared a provincial state of emergency to support the ongoing wildfire situation. Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General made the announcement after recommendations from the BC Wildfire Service and Emergency Management BC. The state of emergency comes into effect at 12 a.m. on July 21st, 2021. The province said the declaration allows federal, provincial and local resources to be delivered in a coordinated response to protect the public. “Public safety is always our first priority, and as wildf...

Residents of a community in British Columbia’s Interior desperately searched for loved ones and tried to process the loss of their homes on Thursday after learning that most of the village of Lytton had been destroyed by raging wildfires.  The province’s public safety minister said the blazes, one of which spanned nearly 90 square kilometres, had levelled most buildings in the village about 250 kilometres northeast of Vancouver. Mike Farnworth also said multiple residents were unaccounted for, though he didn’t offer any firm numbers or specific damage estimates.  The news came as an a...

Fire Destroys Most Homes and Buildings in Lytton, BC; Some Residents Missing Residents of a community in British Columbia’s Interior desperately searched for loved ones and tried to process the loss of their homes on Thursday after learning that most of the village of Lytton had been destroyed by raging wildfires. The province’s public safety minister said the blazes, one of which spanned nearly 90 square kilometres, had levelled most buildings in the village about 250 kilometres northeast of Vancouver. Mike Farnworth also said multiple residents were unaccounted for, though he didn’t o...

Article content Lisa Lapointe said that during a usual five-day period in B.C. emergency services would be called to 165 sudden deaths. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Hundreds who died from heat exposure in B.C. were mostly seniors found alone in unventilated suites, says coroner Back to video “The last five days in British Columbia have seen an unprecedented number of deaths reported to the B.C. Coroners Service,” she said. “Between Friday and 1 p.m. today, at least 486 sudden and unexpected deaths have been reported to our agency. Th...