B.C. provides community funding for emergency evacuation route enhancement

VICTORIA – The Province of British Columbia is providing funding to B.C. communities to enhance emergency evacuation routes and improve public-notification planning.

Twenty-two communities will be provided with a total of $909,000 through the Community Emergency Preparedness Fund (CEPF) to develop and update plans such as the identification and capacity of available routes and methods of evacuation and local emergency-alerting systems to provide information to people in the event of an emergency, a release said.

B.C. has invested $369 million into the CEPF since it was established in 2017, the release said. More than $223 million has been provided to First Nations and local governments through the CEPF for more than 2,020 projects.

A full list of projects is here.