The Strathcona Regional District (SRD) is seeking a Union of BC Municipalities grant to decrease the wildfire threat to community buildings.
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The Cortes Island Fire Department trains new volunteers
Orientation for the new Cortes Island Fire Department volunteers began last month.
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Quadra and Cortes Islands without power overnight
Campbell River Mirror, Local Journalism Reporter
With ferries cancelled, BC Hydro says that customers on Quadra and Cortes Island will be left without power overnight (Jan. 5).
According to BC Hydro, 8,963 customers on North Vancouver Island were without power as of 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, with the majority of outages concentrated in Tofino, Campbell River and Courtenay.
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The Squamish Nation’s Great Flood
By Martha Perkins, North Shore News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
High atop Canada’s Western mountain ranges, geologists have been amazed to chance upon the fossils of prehistoric aquatic creatures.
How did remnants of a vast tropical seabed wind up touching the sky?
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North Quadra Residents Divided About Wildfire Protection
National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Dalyce Dogterom recalls the night a neighbouring house, in Quadra Island’s remote community of Bold Point, caught fire a couple of years ago.
She couldn’t see the blaze from her property, but the night sky glowed red, she said.
Residents’ calls to 911 brought out the police and the ambulance service to treat the residents for smoke inhalation.
But the Quadra Island Fire Department (QIFD) wasn’t called out because fire protection services in the less densely populated and more isolated northern part of the island falls to the BC Wildfire Service, Dogterom said Monday.
The provincial wildfire service does not fight structure or residence fires, but rather forest fires.
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