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.
The fire centre oversees wildfire situations across 16.5 million hectares of land covering the Lower Mainland, Sea-to-Sky, Vancouver Island, Central Coast, and Haida Gwaii areas of B.C.
For the mainland portion of CFC, there has been one naturally caused fire and 31 created by human activity….