Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Mike Hager
Publication Date: August 14, 2025 - 22:18
Vancouver Island fishing hot spot Bamfield grapples with prolonged power outage as wildfire burns
August 14, 2025
The 300 or so year-round residents of Bamfield, B.C., are no strangers to power outages, often forced to go a day or so in the winter without electricity in their craggy hamlet on southwestern Vancouver Island.
But, on Thursday, many locals were on edge during their third day without power, as they sought out gas for generators to keep upward of a thousand tourists comfortable and hundreds of kilograms of salmon they had just caught from rotting.
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