Dix thanks health care workers for efforts during wildfires
KAMLOOPS — The unprecedented wildfire season is the biggest on record in B.C. with 1.061 million hectares burned. The wildfires forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and also forced Interior Health to welcome evacuee patients who were transferred to Kamloops.
Interior Health says 20 evacuees were treated at Royal Inland Hospital, including 16 from 100 Mile House. Ponderosa housed 66 residential care patients and welcomed another 14 patients who were initially staying at evacuation centres in Kamloops.
According to the health authority, Overlander Residential Care also hosted 13 patients from affected Interior communities during the peak of the fire activity.