It will be the first time since the Cameron Bluffs wildfire closed Highway 4 that the food bank makes its daily trip to Port Alberni to drop off supplies at the high school, Port Alberni Shelter Society and the Salvation Army.
The Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank in Nanaimo is set to drive a truck full of food along the 90-kilometre detour route to Port Alberni this morning to help food banks and soup kitchens under stress.
The Bread of Life soup kitchen and the Alberni Valley Salvation Army Community Food Bank feed about 800 people a day. It’s been a bit of a challenge, said Ramsay, but so far they’ve been able to keep feeding everybody even with slightly higher demand. The highway, which connects Port Alberni, Tofino and Ucluelet with the rest of Vancouver Island, was closed as a result of debris dropping on the road from the wildfire and isn’t expected to reopen to single-lane, alternating traffic until the weekend of June 24, with full reopening not anticipated until mid-July.
The ministry has vehicles on the ground from its maintenance contractor and has been given the OK by the B.C. Wildfire Service to start some cleanup below the fire slope, she said. The Cameron Bluffs wildfire has decreased over the past few days and is not expected to spread, the B.C. Wildfire Service said Wednesday.
Despite a rise in temperature throughout the day Monday, the fire did not increase in activity or size, said Stearnes.
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