Der Premierminister von British Columbia verspricht eine Überprüfung der Notfallmaßnahmen bei Waldbränden in der Nähe von Summerland

My understanding of the Summerland wildfire is that it is very similar to what happened in Lytton a few years ago:

Strong winds matched with tinder-dry conditions and Summerland residents had not a lot of time to prepare.

Emergency services only had enough time to go around and issue evacuation orders and that was about it.

There wasn’t much the fire departments could do otherwise.

If you’re wanting municipalities to have a zero-loss prevention policy in place and ready to roll at the end of April/May, then be prepared for that three letter word that you hate to increase: tax.

If you want every municipality to roll out a fire prevention system on every home, that is tapped into the water supply and can be turned on remotely in an emergency situation like what happened in Lytton or Summerland, that’s gonna cost a few hundred dollars per home to install, then there’s maintenance costs and annual checks, etc… All in, I’d expect a program like that to cost around $2,000 annually. So, we’re looking at $167.00/month. MINIMUM.

If someone says, „We need to do better“, tell them that it’s gonna cost an extra $167.00/month, then they’ll be all, „I already pay enough in taxes.“

Do you want your home protected from wildfires or not?

Then of course you’ll have the deep, inner-city people be like, „We’re so far from the forest perimiter, why should I pay?“

Everyone wants solutions, but they don’t want to pay.