Indigenous communities in B.C. and California promote cultural burns for disaster mitigation – CBC
Jan 22, 2025
More than 14,000 structures lost in L.A. fires
In the heat of the L.A. fires, Jeremiah Louis is reminded of 2021 when fire surrounded the Okanagan Indian Band (OKIB), his home community.
“In the beginning, I was feeling helpless,” he said.
In the years leading up to the White Rock Lake wildfire, some members of the OKIB took it upon themselves to practise fire prevention with an Indigenous technique known as cultural burning around a cluster of homes each spring — and because of this, he says the homes were spared during the fire.
Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cultural-burn-wildfire-b-c-california-1.7436340
