B.C. wildfires

“It was cathartic and soothing. It provided us with a sense of finality.”

From emergency evacuations to managing tsunami-like burns, incident commander Scott Rennick has a tough job that is becoming more challenging than ever.

The state of emergency will remain in effect for 14 days

This year’s wildfire season in British Columbia was a record-breaker. Not only did a historic amount of land burn (more than 12,000 square kilometres or an area more than twice the size of Prince Edward Island), but the fires also released a record amount of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. READ: What it feels like to escape…

When fire forced the owners of a 100 Mile House ranch to flee the B.C. interior this summer, their two Maremma Sheepdogs stayed behind with their 89 charges

(Post updated with new satellite image from Aug. 8) The smoke from multiple wildfires in B.C. has created hazardous breathing conditions across the province. In Kamloops, air quality is the worst in recorded history. A heat wave in the Lower Mainland coupled with the smoke has lead to a spike in 911 calls about breathing problems….

Carmen Jacobsen had walled herself off from the world after losing her best friend in a horrific crime. The fire—and the heroism of her neighbours—brought her back.

The evacuation of Williams Lake shows lessons of last year’s nightmare sank in. Good thing, because the wildfire threat across Western Canada is getting worse.

With hundreds of fires and thousands of people to fight them, the crisis in B.C. demands cutting-edge methods and choreographic planning

Here’s what one of the largest of the dozens of wildfires in B.C. looks like when superimposed over Canada’s biggest cities

A look at the devastating wildfires raging across parts of British Columbia