As the Canadian Mental Health Association issues guidelines to help residents in British Columbia as they cope with the devastating wildfires ripping up the province, Premier John Horgan toured the hard-hit Prince George region on Tuesday and expressed dismay over the blazes.
B.C. Premier John Horgan, second from the left, addresses the media in Prince George on Tuesday morning as wildfires rage around the region. He was accompanied (at left) by federal Minister of Defence Harjit Sajjan. (Dillon Hodgin/CBC)
“We’re concerned, all of us, that this may be the new normal,” told reporters.
“From flood to fire to flood and then again to fire,” he said. “And we have had two states of emergency–that’s unprecedented.
“That speaks to the changing environment we live in and the ravages of climate change.”
On Monday night, fire officials said three huge fires–covering an area of 1,000 square kilometre–are racing through an area of central B.C. west of Prince George.
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