12-09-2018 15:59 via vancouversun.com

Crews 'aggressively' fight wildfire that threatened Trail hospital

TRAIL — Wildfire crews in southeastern B.C. hope to make short work of a blaze that broke out late Tuesday and burned within a few hundred metres of the hospital in Trail.
The Kootenay Boundary Regional District says four BC Wildfire Service air tankers, a helicopter and a total of 36 firefighters from local fire halls and the wildfire service “aggressively fought the blaze” and made good progress by nightfall.
The wildfire service says the roughly two hectare fire followed the
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