Local governments and First Nations in British Columbia are getting more support to prepare for the risk of natural disasters related to climate change.
"The last few years have taught us a hard lesson about the impacts of climate change," Eby said Tuesday, citing Interior wildfires, Fraser Valley floods, highway slides, bridge collapses and a heat wave that resulted in more than 600 deaths.
"There was a forest fire across the water and at night we could literally watch the trees burn and explode, literally explode, because of the heat from the fire," he said. The new fund will also provide a one-stop online platform for communities and First Nations to review flood, wildfire, weather and other hazardous events data that had previously been spread over various government websites, said Ma.
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