Multiple early-season wildfires burning

This article was written and published by the Toronto Star on April 22, 2024.

Wildfire season is off to an early start in British Columbia’s central Interior and Cariboo regions. The B.C. Wildfire Service is reporting multiple wildfires south of Quesnel and east of Vanderhoof. The Wildfire Service says the largest of the fires is the Burgess Creek wildfire, about 45 kilometres south of Quesnel and currently estimated to be about 50 hectares in size. The Prince George Fire Centre is reporting two wildfires of about eight hectares in size about four kilometres east of Vanderhoof. The Wildfire Service is reporting 112 active wildfires in B.C.

Author: Ray Nakano

Ray is a retired, third generation Japanese Canadian born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario. He resides in Toronto where he worked for the Ontario Government for 28 years. Ray was ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh in 2011 and practises in the Plum Village tradition, supporting sanghas in their mindfulness practice. Ray is very concerned about our climate crisis. He has been actively involved with the ClimateFast group (https://climatefast.ca) for the past 5 years. He works to bring awareness of our climate crisis to others and motivate them to take action. He has created the myclimatechange.home.blog website, for tracking climate-related news articles, reports, and organizations. He has created mobilizecanada.ca to focus on what you can do to address the climate crisis. He is always looking for opportunities to reach out to communities, politicians, and governments to communicate about our climate crisis and what we need to do. He says: “Our world is in dire straits. We have to bend the curve on our heat-trapping pollutants in the next few years if we hope to avoid the most serious impacts of human-caused global warming. Doing nothing is not an option. We must do everything we can to create a livable future for our children, our grandchildren, and all future generations.”