B.C. sending firefighting team to California as premier gears up for trip to U.S. to fight tariff threat [Video]

Devastating wildfires continue to burn throughout Los Angeles and southern California. Nearly 10,000 structures have been damaged or destroyed, with more than 180,000 people displaced. Andrew Chang explains how drought conditions and Santa Ana winds contributed to the biggest of the blazes, the Palisades Fire in L.A. County, and why firefighters are struggling to contain it.Images gathered from Reuters, Getty Images, and The Canadian Press.

Premier David Eby says crews from British Columbia are joining the fight against wildfires spreading in the Los Angeles area in California.

On social media, Eby said the province had received a request from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection for a senior management team to join the fight and that “they will be departing imminently.”

“California has been there for us. We will be there for them. That’s what good neighbours do,” Eby wrote in a post on Bluesky and X …