Mayor of Clinton says crew assessing damage in community after wildfire

CLINTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA — The mayor of Clinton, British Columbia, says an assessment crew is going through the village to assess wildfire damage after residents were evacuated last week.

Roland Stanke says in a social media post that people whose properties suffered damage will be contacted personally, hoping they’d hear about the damage from assessors rather than “misinformation posted on Facebook.”

Stanke says there are still smouldering embers everywhere, and they can cause flare-ups.

He says in the post that people who have defied the evacuation order now have to boil their water, since a reservoir bypass has allowed untreated water to be used to fight the flames.