BC Sending Almost 100 Firefighters to Ontario, After 42 Deployed to Manitoba

A helicopter flies overhead after dropping water outside a fire guard line as BC Wildfire Service firefighters conduct a controlled burn near Peachland, B.C., on Sept. 7, 2017. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

British Columbia Forests Minister Ravi Parmar says the province is sending almost 100 wildland firefighters to Ontario, where fires have been threatening several communities near the Manitoba border.

Parmar says the deployment comes after B.C. sent 42 firefighters to Manitoba, where a blaze in the Rural Municipality of Lac du Bonnet this week destroyed 28 homes and cottages and left two people dead.