British Columbia’s public safety minister says he expects many houses and the municipal infrastructure destroyed by a wildfire in Lytton to be rebuilt by this time next year.
Mike Farnworth says that would give displaced residents returning home a sense of their future after 90 percent of their village burned to the ground last June 30 during a record-setting heat wave.
Debris removal is underway, possibly allowing rebuilding to start in September so that the water and sewer system can be put in place.
Farnworth says he understands the frustration of many residents who have been out of their homes for a year while the province works with First Nations to recognize the challenges of what is an important archeological site….