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Eby tells BC Wildfire Service to act on failures that led to firefighter’s death
LANGLEY, B.C. — B.C. Premier David Eby says he wants the BC Wildfire Service to enact reforms after a workplace report identified safety failures that led up to the death of a young wildland firefighter last year.
Nineteen-year-old Devyn Gale was killed when a burning tree struck her during firefighting operations near Revelstoke last July.
A WorkSafeBC report says training and supervision by the BC Wildfire Service was ineffective and inadequate, and fellow firefighters had already expressed concern about the tree that killed Gale.
But the investigation that was first reported by the CBC says no assessment was carried out on the tree before it fell.