Lytton Rebuild

• Lytton celebrates first new municipal building, 4 years after fire razed village

  Community leaders held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the first of the village's municipal buildings to be replace: a new public works building. 

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  Aug 29, 2025
  
• ‘Hole in my soul’: B.C. artist writes song for fire-razed Lytton

  'Hole In My Soul,' a song for Lytton, made its YouTube debut on Feb. 9 at four minutes and 23 seconds in length, including an opening statement about the disaster.

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  Feb 16, 2024
  
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• Two years after behemoth fire, 1st home rebuild begins in Lytton

  Mayor Denise O'Connor said the first residential rebuild permit was issued in the fall and "rebuilding is going to be starting full force" in the coming months.

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  Dec 21, 2023
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• What role is archeology playing in the slow pace to rebuilt Lytton?

  A 7,500-year-old spear point and ancestral remains are among the thousands of artifacts uncovered at the townsite, following a 2021 fire that razed the village.

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  Oct 19, 2023
• ‘So forgotten’: No pandemic loan forgiveness for business owners in fire-razed Lytton

  Megan Fandrich's Klowa Art Café in Lytton was the place her daughter took her first steps. She now describes it as a "nice, burned up piece of property."

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  Aug 11, 2023
• Lytton B.C. waits to rebuild two years after devastating wildfire

  The 2021 wildfire destroyed 90 per cent of the structures and homes in the B.C. town and scorched more than 800 square kilometres of land.

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  Jun 30, 2023
• Lytton, B.C., sues CN, CP rail and Transport Canada over 2021 fire that razed village

  Lawyers allege Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways continued to operate in late June 2021, despite record-setting heat and an extreme wildfire danger.

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  Jun 22, 2023
• ‘Fire war zone’: A look at the disaster that razed Lytton and plans to rebuild 1 year later

  Lytton First Nation Coun. Naikia Hanna described it as a 'fire war zone.' Powerful winds propelled flames through homes and businesses, burning them to the ground.

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  Jun 30, 2022
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• Federal government gives $77 million for new fire-resistant buildings in Lytton, B.C.

  Harjit Sajjan, the minister of International Development, made the announcement today at a gas station that survived the fire just outside of Lytton.

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  Jun 14, 2022
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• Residents encouraged to return to Lytton, B.C. to ‘sift’ as debris removal gets underway

  The B.C. government has announced $18.4 million in funds to cover the costs of debris removal, archeological work and soil remediation in the fire-razed village of Lytton.

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  Mar 8, 2022