b'WILDFIRE REBUILDRESTORATION ROADTHE PATH TO RENEWAL IN LYTTON, B.C., INCLUDES CHALLENGESAND ACCOMPLISHMENTS BY JAMES PETERSere not going anywhere,and has led the villages restoration effortsprevious days. The blaze destroyed roughlyW says Lytton Mayor Deniseever since. With a pre-fire population90 per cent of the buildings in downtown OConnor. We want everyoneof roughly 250 souls, many in LyttonLytton. Nearby, Lytton First Nation had to know that our team is focused onrelocated afterwards into surroundingan evacuation plan and quickly carried restoring our village and getting the wordareas as restoration efforts started.it out on short notice without assistance out. Were building Lytton back, slowlyfrom provincial authorities.but steadily. Located on the east side of the Fraser River and south side of the ThompsonWhen I became mayor in November Talk about resilience. The Village ofRiver, Lytton includes the village proper2022, the village was still under a state Lytton was the scene of a catastrophicand the surrounding Nlakapamuxof local emergency and no debris had fire in the summer of 2021, causingNation communities, including Lyttonbeen cleaned up yet, OConnor says. the deaths of two people and burningFirst Nation. The wildfire started in theOver the last three years, weve managed multiple homes and businesses to theearly evening of June 30, 2021, duringto get the remediation done on all of ground. OConnor took the helm ofa time when the village had been settingthe properties, and most of the cleanup mayor a little over a year after the fireCanadian temperature records in theis finished. That means the affected R E L I A B I L I T Y S T A R T S A T T H E T O PServing Southern British Columbia Since 1976P:250-492-7985F: 250-492-7781E: interiorroofing@shaw.cawww.interiorroofing.com22 SOUTHERN INTERIOR CONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION'