Wildfire recovery will take years, says Agriculture Minister
KAMLOOPS — Agriculture Minister Lana Popham says recovering from the most destructive wildfire season in B-C’s history will not be quick or easy.
Popham says cooler, wetter weather is forecast to arrive in the parched southeast region of the province later this week.
But she’s urging residents to remain vigilant until the wildfire season is over.
Kevin Skrepnek of the B-C Wildfire Service says more than 12-hundred wildfires have destroyed nearly 11-thousand 700 square kilometres of land, breaking the previous record set in 1958.