Ucluelet RCMP increase patrol at Kennedy watershed – Westerly News

“There’s no social distancing and there is a lot of drugs; total destruction of the environment.”

Sep. 1, 2020

Several emergency service crews have responded to multiple overdoses out on the Kennedy Lake watershed logging roads in Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations (TFN) territory, according to Ucluelet’s community paramedic unit chief Rachelle Cole.

Cole raised the issue during the Aug. 26 Alberni Clayoquot-Regional District (ACRD) board meeting.

“We are going out there for overdose calls and it’s wall-to-wall people living in their cars,” said Cole.

“There’s no social distancing and there is a lot of drugs; total destruction of the environment. I had heard how bad it was, but until you see it and until you experience I think anybody on this call would be shocked that this is happening in our backyard,” she said. Cole later confirmed there have been no fatalities to date.

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