All 2023 Vancouver Island Wildfires Were Human-Caused: BC Fire Centre

All 2023 Vancouver Island Wildfires Were Human-Caused: BC Fire Centre
A firefighter directs water on a grass fire burning on an acreage behind a residential property in Kamloops, B.C., on June 5, 2023. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
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A fire centre responsible for coordinating wildfire suppression across south coastal British Columbia says there has been a higher than average number of wildfires on Vancouver Island, and all so far have been started by people.

“On the Island, we haven’t had any natural caused fires, all 46 have been human-caused,” said Jade Richardson, fire information officer with the Coastal Fire Centre (CFC), reported by CHEK News on June 26.