Four Young BC Firefighters Heading Home Die in Head-On Crash on Highway: RCMP

Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Bruce Ralston, speaks after being named to the position after a provincial government cabinet shuffle, in Vancouver, B.C., on Jan. 22, 2020. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Four young men travelling home after helping in the battle against wildfires in central British Columbia are dead after a fiery head-on crash, police and provincial officials said Wednesday.

RCMP Cpl. James Grandy said emergency crews responded around 2 a.m. Tuesday to the crash on Highway 1 east of Cache Creek in the province’s southern Interior.