Community Wildfire Resiliency Plan
The City of Terrace is working on a Community Wildfire Resiliency Plan (CWRP), the next generation of the City's Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP).
CWRPs provide a framework for wildfire risk mitigation within communities. The City of Terrace's CWRP will outline recommendations with different suggested priority levels. These, along with regional fire departments and other stakeholder input, will craft next steps and future plans to reduce wildfire risk.
Key goals of the CWRP planning process
- Increase community capacity and understanding of wildfire risk;
- Foster greater collaboration within and across administrative boundaries;
- Be more responsive to the needs of the community in terms of size, capacity, potential threats; and
- Develop achievable and accountable action items.
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Gathering info & input for the CWRP
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City of Terrace FireSmart Coordinator Kim Service (right) at the farmers market, talking to the public, with Gabriel Courchesne-Normandin of the BC Wildfire Service.As we develop the Community Wildfire Resilency Plan (CWRP), we will engage with a number of parties. This includes but is not limited to:- City of Terrace staff (various departments)
- Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine
- Emergency Program Coordinator
- Thornhill Fire Department
- Kitsumkalum First Nation
- Kitselas First Nation
- Provincial Government
- BC Wildfire Service (Prevention Officer, Skeena Zone staff, etc)
- BC Timber Sales (BCTS) Wildfire recovery team
- Emergency Management BC (EMBC)
- First Nations Emergency Services Society (FNESS)
- BC Parks
Topics of discussion and potential areas of collaboration include the history of wildfires in the area, fuel management projects, identified wildfire risk areas and any specific areas of concern. We will also gather input on draft recommendations. The aim is for the report not to be created in silo.
A couple specific examples of working together include fuel mapping with BCWS, and interagency emergency coordination between the City of Terrace, EMBC, RDKS, Kitsumkalum and others.
We will also engage the public through various means, for example, a survey, and public education and information sharing - such as a booth with BCWS at the Skeena Valley Farmers Market.
Any and all engagement work will revolve around the following seven FireSmart disciplines:
- Education
- Emergency Planning
- Vegetation Management
- Legislation
- Development
- Interagency Coordination
- Cross Training
