19K views · 365 reactions | UPDATE: The BC Wildfire Service is continuing to respond to the Sparks Lake (K21001) and Tremont Creek (K21849) wildfires. Incident Commander Benson Todd from Western Australia provides an update on the fires, which are part of a complex managed by an Australian Incident Management Team. | BC Wildfire Service | Facebook

The 2023 wildfire season has been long and challenging. Between April 1 and October 31, 2,245 wildfires burned more than 2.84 million hectares of forest and land resulting in the most destructive wildfire season in British Columbia’s recorded history. “We started really early, snow melted three to four weeks early, we were experiencing very aggressive fire behaviour in early May and that has persisted right into the month of October,” Neal McLoughlin, Superintendent, BCWS Predictive Services. It

24K views · 347 reactions | UPDATE: Incident Commander Benson Todd, who is supporting the BC Wildfire Service as part of an Australian Incident Management Team (IMT), provides an overview of recent activity and current operations on the Nk’Mip Creek Wildfire (K52061), located in the vicinity of Osoyoos and Oliver. | BC Wildfire Service | Facebook