B.C.’s Cariboo Regional District mulls wildfire proposals after 2017 blazes

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. – A regional government in British Columbia’s southern Interior is mulling more than 70 recommendations to improve its response to wildfires. …The recommendations are part of a report following community consultations last fall. Regional district chairwoman Margo Wagner says some of the proposals would require help from the provincial government, but others related to local operations could be implemented first. She says those would include improved communications or better permitting to allow residents to more easily return to evacuated areas. Wagner says the regional district is as prepared as it can be for another wildfire season.