A B.C. firefighter is opening up about life on the frontline of the province’s fight against raging wildfires.
VANCOUVER -- After a gruelingly long day fighting a wildfire in BC, Joey Only's hands are covered in ash and dirt."It's dirty work and it's hard work, " he says."There's so much walking that my heels are completely torn apart."He's been on the frontline battling fires for more than five years.
"When you have this much heat and such low humidity, the kind of summer that B.C has been seeing, it's dynamically explosive conditions for fire." "So you find a burn area and you dig it out.But often when you dig a couple feet outside of it, you find more heat. You think it is easy to put out a forest fire? No, it is not."
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