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The McDougall Creek wildfire remains out of control.

Social media posts claim a photo of emergency response personnel wearing blue helmets in British Columbia shows that the United Nations' diplomatic security force is mediating between civilians and officials over wildfire evacuation orders. This is false; law enforcement agencies say UN peacekeepers were not in the Canadian province, and that the workers pictured are from local rescue operations.

Members of the Airdrie fire department will be working in the Emergency Command Centre dealing with the wildfires in the Northwest Territories.

As wildfires continue to rage across Canada from coast to coast, members of the Airdrie fire department have been asked to provide their skills and knowledge up north.

A First Nation in B.C.s North Shuswap region is dealing with catastrophic damage in the aftermath of the Bush Creek East wildfires devastating run through the area.

‘People must remember, the fire is being held, the fire is not out,’ Lake Country’s mayor cautioned

The Vancouver-based disaster response team Canada Task Force 1 has completed 1,506 rapid damage assessments in the wildfire-ravaged West Kelowna and North Shuswap areas, allowing residents to find out if their homes are safe to return to.

Thirty-one homes in the Skwlax te Secwepemculecw First Nation were lost to the Bush Creek East wildfire, including Kukpi7 James Tommas.

Canada Task Force 1, a heavy urban search and rescue team, completed more than 500 rapid damage assessments on homes and properties in the area this week.

Officials say about 170 homes and other buildings have been reported damaged or destroyed by wildfires in the Shuswap region of British Columbia, almost doubling the known structural losses in the province's ravaged Interior.