Don Plant was a long-time reporter for The Daily Courier who covered the Okanagan Mountain Park fire in 2003. He wrote his reflections of the disaster just before the McDougall
Zak Muise was working for a private company, Bigcat Wildfire in Summerland, and was deployed 150 kilometres north of Fort St. John, helping battle the Donnie Creek wildfire.
A head-on collision involving a car and a truck towing an RV on Highway 97 in the Monte Lake area near Kamloops, B.C., early Monday resulted in the death of one driver, RCMP said.
The BC Wildfire Service updated the status of the fire Thursday, and that means it's unlikely to grow past its predetermined boundaries, given current conditions.