Shuswap-area residents receive wildfire training and 17 volunteer to join official efforts to extinguish one of the largest fires in B.C. in shift after some defied evacuation orders and stayed behind to fight the blaze
City parks draw millions, but that foot traffic also raises the risk of humans causing brush or forest fires, which are mostly started by lightning in the wild
Lack of firefighters in rural areas has led community members to take the protection of their land into their own hands, but provincial officials say this hinders the fire fight