Aug. 4, 2017, Vancouver – This year’s wildfire season has become British Columbia’s worst in six decades, and a provincial spokesman says the action is far from over. Kevin Skrepnek of the BC Wildfire Service said Thursday that 4,910 square kilometres of forest, bush and grassland have been torched, making 2017 the second worst year […]

Aug. 4, 2017, Delta, B.C. – The mayor of Delta, B.C., has closed five local parks over wildfire concerns. Tinder dry conditions coupled with a lack of provincial resources and extreme fire risk are behind the decision. CTV News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Aug. 4, 2017, Fredericton – New Brunswick is still under a burning ban Friday, but some residents aren’t getting the message, New Brunswick’s wildfire prevention officer says. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Aug. 4, 2017, Forest City, N.B. – A forest fire burning near Forest City, a small community north of McAdam near the Canadian-U.S. border, was considered ‘under control’ on Thursday evening. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Aug. 3, 2017, Toronto – Investigators say a lack of smoke alarms in the vaulted ceiling of a cottage near Peterborough, Ont., was a key factor in the deaths of four people last December. They say the exact cause of the fire at the cottage on Stoney Lake early on Christmas Eve 2016 is unknown, […]

Aug. 3, 2017, Toronto -The city of Toronto has laid out a strategy in response to a spike in suspected opioid-related deaths in recent weeks with measures that include speeding up the opening of three supervised injection sites. Mayor John Tory says the city will also step up training for paramedics and firefighters in areas […]

Aug. 3, 2017, Toronto – Toronto police and firefighters had to deal with another construction crane climber on Wednesday night. Authorities were called at about 11:30 p.m. concerning a man who had scaled a crane at a downtown work site (at Dundas and Jarvis). After about three hours of negotiations involving police and a psychiatrist, […]

Aug. 3, 2017, Victoria, B.C. – A boat erupted into flames in Victoria’s Inner Harbour Wednesday, sending a massive tower of black smoke into the sky that could be seen around the Capital Region. The boat was at Laurel Point in the Fisherman’s Wharf area when it caught fire at around 11:45 a.m., according to […]

Aug. 3, 2017, Clinton, B.C. – The two largest wildfires raging in B.C.’s Interior forced two new evacuation orders on Wednesday afternoon. The evacuation order prompted by the Elephant Hill fire — which is now over 80,000 hectares — has expanded to include an area to the southwest of Clinton, which is already under an […]