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Search Results for: wildFire

How BC Air Access Provides Small Airport Funding and Supports Safety

January 4, 2023December 7, 2022 2 Comments

BC’s 300 aviation facilities have critical roles to play, like wildfire suppression and medical evacuation (medevac), and we’re helping to support them with small airport funding from the BC Air Access Program (BCAAP).

Categories BC Aviation Facilities, BC Infrastructure, BC Travellers, Emergency Events, Funding Programs
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How to Help Volunteer Firefighters Help Others on BC Highways

July 21, 2022July 21, 2022 Leave a comment

 We talk a lot about the importance of roadside worker safety as part of the Cone Zone campaign, but what about roadside volunteer safety? Volunteer firefighters, for example, are first responders to highway incidents.

Categories Cone Zone, Emergency Events

How to Stay Cool and Safe While Driving in BC Summer Heat

October 18, 2022July 13, 2022 Leave a comment

With summers getting hotter, we’ve got information on how you and your passengers can stay cool and safe while driving in BC summer heat.

Categories BC Road Trips, BC Travellers, Tips and How Tos

BC Flooding: What Does the Road to Recovery Look Like for Our Highways?

October 18, 2022May 10, 2022 10 Comments

The south coast of BC is often referred to as the “Wet Coast” – a lighthearted nod to the high levels of rain that fall here annually. However, during the BC flooding of November 2021,

Categories Emergency Events, Engineering

BC’s Historic Landslides – What They Are and How We Manage Them

August 2, 2022May 3, 2022 2 Comments

Managing historic slides takes in-depth analysis to assess the slide’s behaviour, expert information and community input, to choose the best option.

Categories BC Travellers, Engineering

How We Use Traffic Count Data and What That Means for You

January 4, 2022September 24, 2021 2 Comments

Data. It’s a popular thing these days – everybody wants it – and our traffic count data is no exception. In our busy province, we study traffic data to help us identify where traffic is

Categories BC Infrastructure, BC Travellers, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

Behind the Scenes with Our Highway Operations Managers

April 30, 2021September 16, 2020 4 Comments

Welcome to the work of our operations managers… It takes a cool head in emergencies, problem-solving and planning skills, an ability to communicate with a vast variety of people – and in one case – an eight-hour drive to the job.

Categories Career Stories, Careers, Road Maintenance
Debris Flow warning sign in the Elephant Hill area near Cache Creek.

How We Are Fighting Wildfire Impacts at Elephant Hill

September 25, 2020July 28, 2020 Leave a comment

It was the most destructive wildfire in the province during the record-breaking 2017 wildfire season, covering 192,000 hectares at its peak. The Elephant Hill wildfire began south of Ashcroft, destroying more than 120 homes and

Categories Environment
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