Premier David Eby and Bowinn Ma, Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness, announced Tuesday that B.C. is adding $180-million to a community emergency preparedness fund
to nearly double a fund that prepares First Nations and municipal governments for future natural disasters and mitigates the risks these calamitous events pose to their communities.
“These funds will assist in the planning of evacuation routes as well as in flood mitigation infrastructure, like dikes, it will aid emergency operation centres and provide equipment and training for volunteer fire departments,” Mr. Eby told reporters at the legislature in Victoria. Leah Stump, Chief of the Nazko First Nation, said in a news release that her remote community welcomes the new funding after being battered in recent years by wildfires, flooding, heat waves and droughts.
Ms. Ma, who was appointed in December, said the province has successfully processed almost every application for disaster assistance related to the 2021 floods. But, she said, for now, the process is still far too slow as people must mail or fax in paper applications, which are then entered into a digital system by staff in her ministry.
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