🇨🇦 Prescribed burns are an established wildfire suppression tactic. British Columbia Wildfire Services said this video shows a planned ignition in the northeast of the province near Donnie Creek
"It's our largest wildfire this season. It might even be growing into becoming one of the largest wildfires that we have seen in BC," said Erika Berg, a spokeswoman with BC Wildfire.
Berg said the clips were filmed on June 1 and June 2, and the fire protection agency uses these types of videos to educate the public about how they fight"There can be a misconception that people think, 'Well, just put out the fires, put it out.' But when you get to fires of this size, there's really no way that you can fully extinguish it. It kind of just needs to burn itself out," Berg said.
She said that planned ignition is used to remove brush ahead of a wildfire so when it reaches that area there is less fuel for it feed on, limiting the spread of flames as they fan out and making the work of fire crews more manageable.
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