Some Smithers Residents Forced Out of Homes

By 250 News

    

Residents of  more than  24 homes in the  Ebeneeer Flats area of Smithers,  have been forced to leave their homes as the Bulkley River  spills its banks.

Patricia Utz is one of those residents. 

She says she has real concerns about the makeshift dikes.  “If that dike along the river where the old bridge is, breaks, and comes through the sandbags, we very likely will have a gush of water coming through and there is nothing to stop it.”

Officials with the Regional District say potential danger to life and health, along with record breaking river levels were the reasons for the evacuations.

The Bulkley River is running at levels never seen before.

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