As we look at the wildland fires happening in BC, Alberta, NWT, Quebec, and Nova Scotia, we ‘knock on wood’ that we won’t follow suit in the Yukon.

In March 2023, Administration advised Council that the Town of Faro’s Wildfire Protection Plan was drafted in the year 2000, and more than a few things have changed in the last 23 years.  We contacted the Wildland Fire Management Branch, and they were in the awkward situation of being overbooked with projects and understaffed.   To meet our needs, however, they proposed that they develop an agreement wherein they would transfer funds to the Town, and we would use those funds to issue a contract to update our 23 year-old Community Wildfire Protection Plan.