Forest fire report leaves armchair generals little room to refight last year's campai

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VICTORIA - British Columbians are labouring under "misconceptions" about the province's ability to contain forest fires, according to the just-completed review of last year's disastrous season. "Many people believed that human intervention could halt any fire and the failure to do so was because of human error," review chair Gary Filmon wrote in summarizing the response at public hearings into last year's fires. "In reality," as the former Manitoba premier discovered from his investigations, "only Mother Nature could stop a rank five or six wildfire as experienced in several instances last summer." With that in mind, the Filmon report dismisses many of the concerns raised by armchair generals seeking to refight last year's forest fire season.

Source: The Vancouver Sun (http://www.firehall.com/refer.php?url=http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/columnists/story.html?id=014da49a-e57e-44da-9ceb-19ca1d44a6b8&linkid=443&parent=news(headlines)&)

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Not all British Columbians are going with this common misconception... Many people in the Lytton area know and understand what can happen when the polititians are left with the ball... lets get on with it... Lets upgrade... Lets get more funding... Lets protect our land...