The First Nations' Emergency Services Society is helping bridge the jurisdictional gap First Nations face during wildfire season through preparedness and mitigation.
Brenden Mercer has been fighting fires since 2009. He’s seen the wildfire landscape change in B.C. and how communities are left to deal with emergency management, firefighting and“When I first started, you’d have big fire blowups occasionally, but over the years it seemed like these events were happening more frequently,” said Mercer.
FNESS delivers essential emergency management, fire training, education and prevention, help with emergency planning, response and recovery and source avenues for funding to First Nations communities across B.C. FNESS’s focus is on rapid wildfire risk assessment. They have fire mitigation trailers and protection trailers and are trying to keep the communities they work with informed.“We’re collecting information on what sort of mitigations need to be done to actually protect homes and with that we’re able to hire band members in the community before a wildfire,” he said. “ThisMitigation can also help curb frustrations from homeowners who feel they’re left hanging with no help.
“As they hit save and they’re in cellphone service, somebody in the band office can see exactly what they did, And that’s just to really increase accountability through emergency management.”
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