New York Consul General Blames CP Rail for Wildfire That Destroyed Lytton, BC, in 2021

A pyrocumulus cloud, also known as a fire cloud, rises in the mountains above Lytton, B.C., on Aug.15, 2021. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

New York Consul General Tom Clark says Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) is to blame for a wildfire that burned the town of Lytton, B.C., to the ground in 2021.

“In British Columbia there was a town called Lytton, and a train went through and sparks came off the rails,” said Clark in a July 14 interview with WXXI-TV in Plattsburgh, New York. “The town was destroyed, burnt out. It was turned into oblivion. There was nothing left of Lytton. So that concern is very real.”