‘Sense of Future’ for Lytton If Homes Rebuilt by This Time Next Year: BC Minister

‘Sense of Future’ for Lytton If Homes Rebuilt by This Time Next Year: BC Minister
A property destroyed by the Lytton Creek wildfire is shown in Lytton, B.C., on August 15, 2021. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
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British Columbia’s public safety minister says he expects many houses and the municipal infrastructure destroyed by a wildfire in Lytton to be rebuilt by this time next year.

Mike Farnworth says that would give displaced residents returning home a sense of their future after 90 percent of their village burned to the ground last June 30 during a record-setting heat wave.