Highway 4 remains closed due to wildfire on bluffs near Cameron Lake
A shortage of supplies and fuel in the Alberni Valley and west coast of Vancouver Island should be addressed starting today.
Port Alberni and communities along the west coast of the Island have been dealing with significant supply delays. Minions said there was probably some panic buying, and having just come through the COVID-19 pandemic, it should have been expected. “It’s such a natural reaction to uncertainty. Those first couple of days we really had no information and having this road being closed to our community is terrifying,” she said. Panic buying is “such a natural response to needing to make sure that you can feed your family.
“We had some precipitation on June 9 and overnight we got 15 millimetres with more expected today [Saturday] so that’s good news for the firefighters,” she said. Rain, cooler temperatures and higher relative humidity have made the fire less active. “It’s smouldering with a bit of flame. That gives our crew a chance to do some pretty good work.”
Minions said with some progress the community has been able to breathe again. “There’s been a hard couple of days with the uncertainty, but I think we’re starting to feel a little bit of a sense that it’s all going to be okay.”Late Friday, the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District, City of Port Alberni, the District of Ucluelet, Tseshaht, Hupačasath, Tla-o-qui-aht, Huu-ay-aht, Uchucklesaht, Toquaht, and Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ First Nations joined together to thank tourists for not travelling.
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