Crews ignite planned burns in effort to contain B.C. wildfires; blaze near Penticton grows by 52% | CBC News

📆 8/4/2022 12:00 PM
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There are 71 active fires across B.C. Crews are taking advantage of cooler weather trying to contain a blaze that has forced hundreds from their homes.

The Keremeos Creek wildfire, just 21 km from Penticton, B.C., is now 42 square kilometres in sizeB.C. Wildfire Service crews monitor small-scale fires they have lit as planned ignitions beside Highway 3A north of Keremeos, B.

C., near a wildfire just 21 kilometres from Penticton.

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I believe that’s less than last year so I guess Trudeau’s climate change action plan is working.

Hmmm lots of fires in north America?

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