Sutherland Road fire exposes unique rural firefighting agreement

Rural life in B.C. presents all kinds of challenges when it comes to wildfires.
Take the Sutherland Road fire, which has been burning for more than a week north east of the community of Fort Fraser, about 135 kilometres west of Prince George.
The nearly 16-square-kilometre fire was first spotted on July 7 by a nearby resident, who called it in to the B.C. Wildfire Service. Initially, there was worry it would threaten homes less than 10 kilometres to the south, but the work of firefighters and so