Fire Smart

Unprecedented wildfires and floods are now common across the world due to climate change, and our lives will be drastically transformed over the next decade and beyond.

In the face of the planet’s most defining challenge and a fast-approaching deadline to address it, what can people like us reasonably do?

The BC Wildfire Service is an excellent source for information on the BC FireSmart Program and the Errington Volunteer Fire Department (EVFD) is encouraging residents to take measures to protect their property.

Fire and fuel management planning involves a series of measures which homeowners can carry out to ensure they minimize the risk of contributing to wildfires in this area.

Every year people and property are threatened by wild land fires. Many of these fires occur in areas called the urban interface zone where homes, cabins and subdivisions are built into the forest landscape. Individual property owners can and should help reduce the risk of wildfire affecting their properties.

If people can implement measures in their own backyard, it will lessen the threat of forest fires spreading to neighbourhoods.

Information on fire-smarting your property.

https://begins-at-home-guide.firesmartbc.ca/
https://firesmartbc.ca/