A fire in a highrise in the Metro Vancouver suburb of Burnaby has sent 15 to hospital, three of them with serious injuries.

Capt. Paul Rushton, a fire information officer with the Burnaby Fire Department, said the call came in around 3 a.m. for a ...

In a remote region of British Columbia, the Chilko River offers isolation, elite paddling, and continuous rapids.

while a controlled fire has been extinguished. The forest service was continuously updating an interactive map to chart the locations and basic characteristics of each fire, marking active ...

Karim Walji is certain he is about lose business. Worried he may have to shrink his workforce — fire people — for the first ...

In 2024, British Columbia saw over 1,600 wildfires burn approximately one million hectares of land. Between April 21 and October 7, 2024, over seven thousand residents were evacuated from their homes.

Strong winds fueled the fire, prompting evacuations, but no buildings were damaged. The Kentucky Division of Forestry estimates 23 acres burned with assistance from multiple agencies. Multiple ...

The Melrose Fire, a fire in Polk County, North Carolina, around 85 miles west of Charlotte, is the biggest active fire in the state at 593 acres and is currently 63% contained. The county is under ...