Wildfire Damage

• Former L.A. resident now living in Kelowna launches bottle drive for wildfire victims

  A former Los Angeles resident who now lives in Kelowna, B.C., has launched a local bottle drive to help support three families who lost their homes in the wildfires.

  Canada

  Jan 17, 2025
  
• Home insurers aiming for ‘climate risk’ rating system to deal with extreme weather events

  Homeowners in Canada may be forced to 'absorb' more of the cost of flooding and other catastrophic climate-fueled extreme weather events.

  Weather

  Oct 3, 2023
  
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• Insured damages from summer storms in Alberta estimated at $300M

  Severe storms in Alberta and the Prairies this summer resulted in more than $300 million in insured losses, according to initial estimates from the Insurance Bureau of Canada.

  Canada

  Sep 19, 2023
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• West Kelowna, B.C. residents feel grief, relief as evacuation orders downgraded

  Many homes  were levelled, vehicles were scorched and the surrounding forest was left blackened and charred.

  Canada

  Sep 14, 2023
• Vancouver Island’s Highway 4 fully reopens

  The critical route has been plagued by intermittent closures and single-lane alternating traffic since being damaged by a wildfire in June.

  Fire

  Aug 31, 2023
• ‘We’re still here’: Skwlāx chief describes terrifying flight from fire, says 31 homes lost

  Ku̓kpi7 (Chief) James Tomma said at least 31 homes were lost in the Skwlāx te Secwepemcúl̓ecw as he described the terrifying speed a wildfire overtook the community last Friday.

  Fire

  Aug 25, 2023
• ‘I’m a David fighting a Goliath’: N.S. homeowner worried about wildfire insurance claims

  'I'm not trying to jump the line, but without getting any response, I feel like I'm not even in the line,' says a Nova Scotia man fighting for answers about his wildfire insurance.

  Canada

  Jul 20, 2023
• B.C. ending provincial state of emergency for wildfires, officials urge caution

  The state of emergency was declared on July 20 and will expire at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday.

  Environment

  Sep 14, 2021
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• Canada’s property insurers update risk modelling amid severe weather events

  The estimated $78 million in insured property damage from the wildfire in Lytton, B.C., in June is a fraction of the rising costs of disasters, the Insurance Bureau of Canada says.

  Consumer

  Aug 15, 2021
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• Dog protected ruins of home destroyed by California wildfire for weeks

  Madison, a shepherd mix, waited at the home until his owner, Andrea Gaylord, returned after evacuating.

  World

  Dec 10, 2018