BC Wildfire Service has lost its way

Kamloops this Week is reporting that "As a lifelong resident and a professional forester in B.C. for more than three decades, with a 40-year wildfire suppression background, and previously recognized by the B.C. Wildfire Service (BCWS) as a wildfire specialist, I am angered by the present state of wildfire management in our province." Bruce Morrow op ed.

He makes several important observations and quotes the Shuswap preignition which made the fire much worse. When you look at that along with their long list of bad practices, it's hard to believe that it's simply negligence and isn't planned. Like cutting off the water supply in Hawaii during the fire or setting up police roadblocks preventing people from escaping. Something very shady is going on here and we can all see it.

Forest fires are certainly not new in BC but these new bad practices are. I have two points to make: volunteers and water bombers. In BC every community has volunteer firefighters. These are trained professionals who have regular jobs and are on call when a fire breaks out. One of my managers at work is one. He has a regular job and when a fire breaks out he takes a leave of absence to fight the fire. This is very helpful and important. It's also cost effective.

The BC's new forest fire promotion commission stopped allowing trained volunteers to assist fighting fires. They are even banning community members from protecting their own homes. That is George Orwell. They are more interested in enforcing evacuation orders than they are in fighting fires. That reveals an agenda. It's the same old problem, reaction solution paradigm.

They create a problem, wait for the reaction and then present their preplanned response to their manufactured emergency. You can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. No lie can live forever.

New pilots who want to get their commercial pilot's license need to get hours in flying. Often they sign up for water bombing during forest fire season to get those hours in. This was a common process. The WEF's NDP stopped this. They have created a problem and intentionally made it worse because they have a sinister agenda just like Justin Trudeau. Stop them.

Why is an Island-based water bomber sidelined as B.C. burns?