Twenty-one new firefighters after recieving their badges in 2023 Climate change, prolonged droughts, and decades of poor forestry practices have combined to put Canadian communities at greater risk of wildfire than ever before. We've all watched the footage from West Kelowna and Summerland, where wildland urban interface fires tore through neighbourhoods in a matter of hours. On Vancouver Island, the Mt. Underwood Fire, the Cameron Lake fire and the Wesley Ridge fire have dem