Last year in BC, 181 workers died from workplace injury or disease.
And on Friday, the City of Vernon honoured those lives lost with a National Day of Mourning ceremony in city hall.
The Crater Creek wildfire, fanned by winds, merged with the Gillanders Creek fire. Together, the two fires grew from an estimated 1,100 hectares to 10,000 hectares.
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VANCOUVER About 80 campers have been evacuated from Cathedral Provincial Park in southern British Columbia after being trapped overnight by a nearby wildfire.