Today, TransLink and Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC) played a small role in helping about 100 long-term care residents who were forced to leave, get to safety here in the Lower Mainland.

Our hearts are with those impacted by the devastating #BCWildfires. Today, @TransLink, Coast Mountain Bus Company and HandyDART played a small role in helping 100 long-term care residents who were forced to leave, get to safety here in the Lower Mainland @yvrairport pic.twitter.com/veSu18XVtH

— News from TransLink (@TransLinkNews) August 18, 2021

CMBC, part of the integrated TransLink enterprise, is responsible for operating 96 per cent of the region’s bus service, while overseeing contracts for the remaining four per cent. Throughout the year, CMBC dispatches buses to local emergencies to assist. It can come in the form of a “shelter bus” that provides much needed, safe and warm protection for displaced residents in cases such as a fire.