SHUBENACADIE, N.S. -- At Nova Scotia's fire protection headquarters, wildfire investigator Kara McCurdy goes through a large black container, showing some of the gear she took with her when she went to help battle wildfires in British Columbia earlier this month. McCurdy is Nova Scotia's only female wildfire investigator and has been the only Nova Scotian sent to B.C. for firefighting efforts so far this fire season. "It's challenging, you're packing on a whim, you're going to help in another province, it's extreme conditions, you don't know where you're going to be staying, living day-to-day," she says. She departed for B.C. July 10 and returned this past Sunday.