Back to videoAfter his home and belongings burned in the Lytton fire in late June, he lived in a series of motels before settling with his daughter in Merritt, only to be evacuated again during the flooding that struck that community in mid-November.
Work is progressing on a four-bedroom modular house that will serve as an interim home for his family while they wait for their house to be rebuilt.Article contentWe apologize, but this video has failed to load.Almost six months after November’s floods and landslides — and 10 months since the summer’s wildfires — about 1,600 British Columbians remain displaced from their homes, according to numbers tabulated by Postmedia.
Merritt Mayor Linda Brown says 740 people have not been able to return to their homes after the community flooded in November.Emergency Management B.C. said in a statement that the province has long struggled to count evacuees because of different reporting methods among local governments and First Nations, but “given the magnitude of climate-related disasters here in B.C., we are working to create a system to better track these numbers.