By Melissa Renwick, Ha-Shilth-Sa, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
As the heat of the summer extends into October there has been a prolonged forest fire season. As of Oct. 18, the province has 201 active fires with six having started in the previous two days.
Though two of the four fires in the Port Alberni area are no longer burning, four in Strathcona, and four between Gold River and Zeballos remain.
Continue reading Wildfires affect air quality, impacting schools on Vancouver Islandqathet Living, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Growing up, no one Anastasia Lukyanova knew drove a car. They didn’t need to. Her family lived in a sixth-floor apartment in a ten-floor highrise, in Ufa, Russia – a dense, mid-sized city of about a million, sandwiched between two rivers
Continue reading Weird West Coast weather: panic globally, Act locallyCKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
The Owen Bay Fire, on the Southern tip of Sonora Island, is now under control.
It was first reported about 4 p.m. on Thursday. By the time the Strathcona Regional District (SRD) issued a wildfire evacuation alert for the 30 or so residences south of Hyacinth and Dorr Lakes, at 11:45 PM, the fire had grown to two hectares. BC Wildfire Service reported that at least one structure was involved.
Continue reading Owen Bay Fire on Sonora Island ‘under control’CKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The air quality and visibility over the weekend was noticeably affected by particulates in forest fire smoke traveling across the landscape, and will likely be present in the region into Wednesday afternoon.
Continue reading Wildfire smoke clouding the skiesNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The acrid blanket of smoke from wildfires raging in the U.S that is cloaking southwest British Columbia and Vancouver Island is expected to continue for the next couple of days.
Continue reading Wildfires lay a blanket of smoke across southern British Columbia
