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Wildfire risks on Vancouver on the rise as temperatures go up and weather dries
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VICTORIA As the warm, dry weather of summer approaches, firefighters up and down Vancouver Island are preparing for the start of wildfire season. Though the current fire danger rating in Greater Victoria is low to moderate, fire services in the region want people to know that as forest floors dry out, it only takes seconds for a spark to become a blaze. It will dry out quite quickly so the chances of a wildfire go up dramatically, said Langford Fire Department assistant chief of fire protection, Lance Caven. With COVID people want to be outside, they want to be out in nature and we just need them to be really diligent, he said.
“As we were heading up there, our dispatch updated us that staff saw smoke in the building. So we upgraded to a commercial structure fire, which then calls our other West Shore partners, Colwood and View Royal Fire departments, as well,” said Caven.
When they arrived, they realized the smoke wasn’t caused by a fire. It was caused by a large freon leak from one of the cooling units in the store, he said.
“When it gets up into the air, it looks like white smoke so staff did the right thing and evacuated the store. They rang the fire alarm and got everybody out of the store and waited for us to arrive,” Caven said.