AI, night-flying choppers credited in part for less destructive B.C. wildfire season

In the Kamloops Fire Centre, which includes the Okanagan, 90 per cent of the wildfires were suppressed at five hectares or ...

Sinkholes and boulder shut down popular trail near Penticton, B.C.

The Penticton Indian Band (PIB) in B.C.’s southern Interior has closed a 32-kilometre section of a popular hiking and biking trail on band-owned land because of large sinkholes, rockfall and ...
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Campers near B.C. lake asked to leave due to wildfire as new blazes emerge this week

The BC Wildfire Service has upgraded a blaze in the Fraser Valley to a wildfire-of-note and is warning campers to leave the Harrison Lake area. It says the Bear Creek fire has reached 65 hectares in ...
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B.C. government fined in connection with death of Norfolk firefighter

As first reported by CBC News, WorkSafeBC fined the B.C. government $759,368.84 last month in relation to Muise’s death and a separate 2023 incident that saw five firefighters trapped and put at risk ...