Wildfire Team Focuses on Containment Line Around Destructive BC Wildfire

Wildfire Team Focuses on Containment Line Around Destructive BC Wildfire
A helicopter is used to battle the Shetland Creek wildfire, near Kamloops, B.C., in a July 21, 2024, handout photo. The Canadian Press/HO - B.C. Wildfire Service
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British Columbia’s wildfire service is working to create containment lines around an “aggressive” blaze that has already destroyed at least six homes.

Jeff Walsh, an incident commander with the BC Wildfire Service, says crews were using heavy equipment on the mountain slopes above Spences Bridge to prevent fire from burning downslope toward the southern Interior community.