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Exterior and interior of incident command vehicle

Are These The Most Amazing Emergency Vehicles in BC?

April 28, 2022June 9, 2020 7 Comments

An emergency can strike anywhere, anytime. Fortunately, we have two amazing emergency vehicles (AKA mobile incident command vehicles) to help us establish a more effective response when something threatens BC’s transportation network. Weather-related emergency events

Categories Emergency Events

What is the TMCBC and What Makes it Cutting Edge?

October 3, 2023August 23, 2019 10 Comments

 What is the Transportation Management Centre of BC (TMCBC)? Well, for starters, think of it as the nerve centre for road/weather conditions and traffic information across BC. Based in Coquitlam, the TMCBC is the

Categories BC Travellers, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
protecting environment in BC

Hydroseeding – What’s Up with the Weird Green Stuff?

June 30, 2022January 15, 2019 35 Comments

Passing through new construction, you may have noticed an odd greenish-grey-coloured coating, alongside the road. What is that weird-looking stuff?  And why is it there? The answer is – hydroseeding – a mix of grass

Categories Environment

The Story of the Francois Lake Ferry during the 2018 Wildfire Emergency

August 9, 2022October 10, 2018 6 Comments

When a formation of wildfires threatened communities around Francois Lake in summer 2018, the MV Francois Forester ferry sailed into emergency service, becoming a 24/7 evacuation route, firefighter transport vessel and community information centre, for

Categories BC Travellers
bc wildfire, wildfire, peachland, highway 97

What You Need to Know About Travelling During BC Wildfires

July 19, 2024August 21, 2018 96 Comments

As witnessed in recent years, wildfire season in BC can happen on a massive scale; cloaking the province with a gloomy shroud of smoke, making the air pungent and thick, and giving the sun an

Categories Emergency Events, Tips and How Tos

Gone to the Dogs – it’s CVSE to the Rescue!

September 13, 2017 4 Comments

Sometimes, it can be a dog eat dog world out there, and that seemed to be the case for five pups caught in the chaos of this summer’s BC wildfire in the Cariboo area. When

Categories BC Travellers, Trucking

BC on Fire: How We Help Battle the Blaze

August 29, 2023September 5, 2017 Leave a comment

In our province, we’ve seen how wildfires can be extremely impactful. For example in 2017, the wildfires that ravaged the interior of BC were the worst our province has ever seen.More than 1,200,000 hectares of

Categories BC Travellers, Emergency Events

Straight out of the Floods and into the Wildfires

August 17, 2021July 19, 2017 Leave a comment

Many BC wildfires occur far from cities and towns, but sometimes they threaten homes, businesses and infrastructure, such as highways and bridges.With hundreds of wildfires heating up around the province and not showing any signs

Categories Emergency Events
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