Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the death of a wildland firefighter in British Columbia is “heartbreaking,” and he sends his deepest condolences to the woman’s family, friends and fellow firefighters.
Trudeau made the comments on social media, reflecting similar statements issued late Thursday by Premier David Eby and the BC General Employees Union.
The unnamed woman died while battling a fire in southeastern B.C., just outside Revelstoke.
Her death is the fourth linked to B.C. wildfires since 2010.
Sixty-year-old John Phare was killed in 2015 while working on a blaze on the Sunshine Coast, north of Vancouver, and two Conair air tanker pilots, Tim Whiting and Brian Tilley, died when their plane went down south of Lytton in July, 2010….
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