Lytton mayor Denise O'Connor said work on the first new building since the 2021 wildfire has started.
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December 20, 2023 - 12:00 PM
Work has started on the first build of a new home in Lytton since a devastating wildfire more than two years ago.
The concrete is now being poured after the first building permit for a new home was issued last month, according to Lytton Mayor Denise O'Connor.
She tweeted a photo of crews at the site, in which she added it will be the first of many to be rebuilt in the village.
Lytton was destroyed in a 2021 wildfire. It sparked amid a heat wave that shattered temperature records, and it razed the village quickly as residents fled their homes.
The long-delayed rebuild process has been blamed on hazardous soils after the fire and required archaeological work.
Roughly two-and-a-half years after the wildfire, the first home is being built.
In addition to the devastating fire, flooding the following November restricted access to the village on Highway 1.
A landslide took out a section of the road near Jackass Mountain, but a newly-installed bridge means two-way traffic can return to a stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway north of the village.
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