The BC Wildfire Service employs a range of experts in fire weather and behaviour who support operational decisions. Fire Behaviour Analysts (FBAN) study fire behaviour…
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Emergency Preparedness Week is May 5-11
Letter to the Editor In 2017 and 2018, British Columbians were stricken by record-setting flood and fire seasons. The impacts are still being felt in…
Entrepreneur found refuge, support with Community Futures
Special Feature When Mother Nature decides to unleash her fury, the human equation can become pretty small. When wildfire bears down on communities and people…
Community Futures fights for businesses impacted by fires
Special Feature July 6, 2017 will be forever remembered in the Cache Creek/Ashcroft areas of British Columbia as the day everything changed. In the worst…
Time to close access to Crown land
e-KNOW Editorial By Ian Cobb Now that the provincial government has declared a state of emergency due to the almost 600 wildfires burning in B.C.,…
One of the gravest situations IH has faced
Letter to the Editor Interior Health teams across IH West are working closely with emergency officials from several agencies to respond to the wildfire activity…
Call line established for those relocated
Interior Health (IH) has established a call line for families whose loved ones have been relocated from health facilities due to wildfire activity in the…
Provincial state of emergency declared
Todd Stone, B.C. Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure and Minister responsible for Emergency Management BC, this evening announced a provincial state of emergency to ensure…
Pay hikes for social workers in Invermere, Golden
Front-line ministry social workers in hard-to-recruit areas of the province will receive an additional $3,000 to $6,000 per year, thanks to a new agreement between…
IH centralizing laundry services
Interior Health’s (IH) Board of Directors announced March 1 that it has reached a 20-year agreement with Ecotex Healthcare Linen Service Inc. to provide the…