'Every year is going to be a bad fire year': wildfire expert | Power & Politics

As of Monday, nearly 22,000 people across British Columbia have been ordered to evacuate their homes, while 11,000 have been told to be ready to leave at a moment's notice. The Bald Range fire is one of the latest blazes among more than 600 fires burning across the country. But what is it about Canada's wildfires that make them particularly difficult to fight? Power & Politics speaks to Mike Flannigan, a B.C. Innovation Research Chair in Predictive Services, Emergency Management and Fire Science at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C.

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