Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Citizens On Patrol Update: Wildfire

Carolyn Chandler and Colleen Krawchuk are the Citizens on Patrol (COP) representatives for Lac Le Jeune. In one of their reports to the RCMP they mentioned the tree/ dead wood debris throughout the neighbourhood, on Crown lands, park, private & vacant lots etc. This is a serious fire trap, in part due to the beetle and, in other cases, just dead tree debris.

The RCMP agree & have passed the information on to Forestry. Hugh Murdoch at Forestry contacted Carolyn to say that he will start to gather information that may be useful to the community. Hugh mentioned the bcwildfire.ca website, which has links to advice for fire smarting your home & property & fuel management. He also said he would involve the regional district & perhaps we would like to consider a community meeting to review what we should all be doing to manage this risk. There are many new residents who were not here at the time of the Frog Lake fire, 1994 or earlier fires.

This proposed gathering could be part of the Lac Le Jeune Conservation Association Annual General Meeting (yet to be scheduled) or a separate event. At this point this is just a heads up, so if you have suggestions please post comments.

Many thanks to Carolyn Chandler and Colleen Krawchuck for your continued work with the Citizens On Patrol project!

1 comment:

Carolyn Phillips said...

Great idea. We were here during the 94 fire and it was scary hearing/seeing planes continually flying overhead and having days of being on 20 min. evacuation alert.

Thank you Colleen & Carolyn for bringing this concern to the attention of the LLJ community.

We think a special meeting should be held for this important issue.