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Would you like to see more controlled burns in South Cariboo?

The 100 Mile Free Press asking people on the street their opinion
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“Probably, in the light of what happened last year.”

- Dennis Mawhinney

108 Mile Ranch

“Sure, yeah. It would be safer for everybody and keep everyone’s nerves away and well, just for safety and keep everything under control,”

- Pete Topper

93 Mile

“As long as they start early enough I would like them. We haven’t had this much snow in ages but I’d say as early as possible and quite say by the end of May,”

- Hedy Buurmeester

108 Mile Ranch

“Yes. I worked in the forest industry for about 26 years and more so, this climate up here, more so than anywhere else, is a lot dryer with all the dead pine trees we got up here if you do control burns we’re not going to get the big wildfires that get away,”

- Mark Ballem

Deka Lake

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