BC campers were fined more than $25,000 last week because they were caught having campfires.
There is a province-wide campfire ban right now. That’s because the weather has been dry, and the heatwave has basically turned all of BC into kindling.
So conservation officers have been visiting campgrounds and handing out tickets to anyone who has a campfire going.
Tickets are $1,150 each. But if your campfire starts a huge forest fire, you could even go to jail.
Folks predicted that this year’s fire season would be bad. And it is.
Normally we don’t see fires like this until August.
The Ministry of Forests said last week that we all have to work together to prevent human-caused fires.
When someone’s stray spark or flung butt starts a fire, it means firefighters can’t work on the ones caused by lightning.
