Residents at Kelowna’s Tent City are pleading for fire extinguishers after a series of damaging fires have swept through the city-maintained encampment over the past month.
Some of the blazes at the encampment, which is located adjacent to the Rail Trail at Richter Street and Weddell Place, have made headlines in Kelowna.
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Despite the increased attention, Tent City residents say that the media’s depiction of the situation does not tell the full story and that they are in desperate need of support.