More wildfire supports needed for isolated Indigenous communities: report

in a report that says the Chilcotin region saw delayed and unequal protection during the record-breaking 2017 wildfire season. …The report, titled The Fires Awakened Us, states that forests in the region are becoming increasingly combustible due to insect infestations and forestry practices. According to the report, the community had inadequate funding for emergency preparedness. Once responders arrived, there was conflict over jurisdiction causing “numerous stumbles, which left communities, land and resources vulnerable to the impending wildfires within the territories of the Tsilhqot’in.” …B.C.’s forests minister, Doug Donaldson, says the province is now working… to determine the financial and human resources that will be needed to bring the recommendations to fruition.