VIDEO: Illegal parking at Cultus Lake causes problems for first responders
With beachgoers flocking to the area, and parking where they shouldn’t, firefighters had a terrible time getting to calls. It’s an annual problem along the Columbia Valley Highway, and this time it was caught on video. Two Cultus Lake Fire Department engines creep along the route, sirens blaring, trying to thread the needle between traffic on one side and parked cars on the other.
“They get pushed over the edge or tossed in the lake,” she noted. “I fished a bunch of them out yesterday morning. People park well into the travel lane, and then there’s nowhere to walk, so people are walking in the travel lane. They stand in the middle of the road and talk to someone in a vehicle when others are trying to get by.
Dixon said RCMP is the only entity with the authority to ticket or tow, and she acknowledged they have to make decisions on where to deploy resources on busy summer days. But Dixon suggested people who park illegally do so knowing there’s no enforcement.
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