Residents hoping to save cabins fighting wildfires themselves; Candle Lake asks for SPSA support to build fire buffer [Video]

“Our goal is to be fully prepared to protect the Resort Village subdivisions and our neighbours if threatened by wildfire,” said Arnold. “Building this buffer may be one of the only things that saves our community, but we need the support of SPSA to complete the work.”

The combined size of the merged Camp fire, which started north of Snowden, and the Shoe fire, which started near Lower Fishing Lake, is 115,000 hectares. Arnold said the flames were still about 21 kilometres away from Candle Lake, but they advanced 14 km toward the resort village just overnight.

Carey Painchaud a resident of Candle Lake, attended the fire chief’s meeting and said his concern is that he’s heard a lot about the politics of fighting the fires when he thinks there should be ‘more concern about the people side.’

“If the political [side] is going to take forever to make a …