B.C.'s historic wildfire season: A recap of the explosive summer

Kyle BrittainVideo Journalist

Published on Sep. 14, 2021, 1:40 PM

The summer of 2021 will be remembered as one of B.C.'s worst wildfire seasons.

B.C. has one of its worst fire seasons on record in 2021 and is notable for how close large wildfires got to major population centres in the Southern Interior.

Extreme heat and dry conditions fanned the fires, which led to numerous evacuation alerts and a new total loss of the village of Lytton.

In the video above, Kyle Brittain take a look back at the far-reaching and fast-spreading fires.

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