With the Telegraph Creek area still under a state of emergency, leadership is working with various government agencies to begin recovery planning in a community that was already in a housing crisis.
“This has just compounded the issue tenfold,” said Feddie Louie, the emergency operations centre director and Tahltan Band economic development manager.
“Our biggest focus right now is … working on a plan to get our evacuees home as quickly as possible to minimize the stress they’re living under. Houses right now are a huge issue for us.”
It’s been three weeks since the Alkali Lake fire ignited in
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