The City of Cranbrook will be requesting a grant to continue wildfire interface work and FireSmart activities.
Cranbrook City Council approved staff’s application to apply for up to $200,000 through the Province’s Community Resiliency Investment program to support fuel management activities.
Mayor Wayne Price says wildfire prevention should always be a priority of council.
“I was involved from 2005 when I was in [Cranbrook Fire & Emergency Services] and I don’t think there’s been a council that’s declined funding for FireSmart,” Price says. “It’s all grant funding and quite frankly in this area there can never be too much funding. So, I’m really happy about that.”
Price says the request coincides with the completion of wildfire mitigation work funded through the 2019 Community Resilience Initiative program.
“Sometimes it takes a number of years to complete the projects because some of them are so weather dependent,” he says. “If you’re going to be doing burning or what not, you’re venting indexes and there’s all these little things that need to be in place before the project can be completed.”
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– Wayne Price, Mayor of Cranbrook – Article contains information from City of Cranbrook
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