Campgrounds taking a financial hit from wildfires
HEFFLEY LAKE, B.C. — Southern Interior campgrounds are taking a financial hit from the wildfires.
David Lumsden and his wife Gail run the Hitch N Rail Resort on Heffley Lake.
Lumsden says they’ve lost more than $40-thousand from campsite cancellations and a decline in restauraunt revenue over the last month.
“For a lot of people it’s asthma concerns with the smoke as well as ongoing highway closures in the area,” said Lumsden. ” The fire up in Heffley-Louis Creek put a lot of fear into people’s minds. I had people arrive today that were pretty skeptical about coming. Hopefully we’ll start to recover but we’ve lost a tremendous amount of money.”