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BC Wildfire Service prepares for annual staff transition as university students return to school

The wildfire situation has showed some improvement in British Columbia, with more people being allowed to return to their homes over the weekend, but blazes continue to threaten communities in

The wildfire situation showed some improvement in British Columbia on Sunday, with more people being allowed to return home, but blazes continued to threaten communities farther north in Canada's Northwest Territories. Hot temperatures and winds expected to gust to up to 40 kph (25 mph) were fanning flames around the Northwest Territories town of Hay River, on the south shore of Great Slave Lake. The blaze, which has burned across 4,000 square kilometers (1,544 square miles), was about a ...

Firefighters battling hundreds of blazes in British Columbia say they've been facing more than the usual obstacles when "irresponsible" members of the public interfere with operations.

The B.C. Wildfire Service says public interference has a direct effect on the effectiveness of fire suppression and poses safety risks to both the public and firefighters.

'We're throwing all of our resources at it right now,' says a Metro Vancouver spokesperson

Helicopters slated to return earlier this morning were called to new fire starts near Pemberton

Less than a month into summer, the B.C. government has already burned through most of the $204 million budgeted for battling wildfires this year.

The Davis Lake wildfire, now a highly visible wildfire of note, is burning in a remote area on the forested slope less than a kilometre north of Davis Lake Provincial Park, 18 kilometres north of Abbotsford.

Five firefighters on scene Wednesday to extinguish fires