This is the best summary I could come up with:
's fight against wildfires continues Saturday, after blazes flared up on Friday night and destroyed properties in the Central Okanagan region.
In a news conference Saturday afternoon, officials said a return to seasonal temperatures was aiding firefighters in the city, but they weren’t out of the woods yet.
Kara Triance told the news conference that police were receiving reports of personal drones flying in wildfire zones, which is illegal under federal regulations.
Ben Stewart, the MLA representing Westside-Kelowna, said the sheer volume of evacuation orders in the area reminded him of the devastating 2003 wildfire season.
The Kookipi Creek wildfire south of the town covers an area of 87.9 square kilometres as of Saturday morning, and has led to numerous evacuation orders and alerts from First Nations and regional districts.
In southeast B.C., officials are urging calm as numerous fires burn around the community of Invermere, B.C., with evacuation alerts in place for the Panorama Mountain resort.
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I really don’t get why they don’t just shoot down any personal drones flying illegally and interrupting the response…
There might be other reasons, but here’s one good one:
It’d be really really hard to.
At 120m (the legal ceiling for “amateurs”), they’re barely even visible in the sky. At 500m (which even cheap drones can achieve), it might as well be invisible. Shooting it down would be next to impossible.
But I agree strongly with the sentiment.
We’re already going through a housing crisis in this country and especially this province. Here’s hoping this fire tragedy doesn’t exacerbate a housing tragedy.
1m newcomers every 8 months and hardly any homes built. We were doomed from the start