With a provincial state of emergency still in effect, Emergency Management Minister and Climate Readiness Minister Bowinn Ma is reiterating a call for people to leave their communities when directed to do so by wildfire officials. While she understands that some people want to stay behind and fight, “people can’t be doing their own thing,” she said Wed. Aug. 23, 2023.
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