All language subtitles for Wildfire.2025.S01E01.1080p.WEB.h264-BAE_track3_[eng]

[spotter] Fire Centre,
X-ray Alpha India.

[Fire Centre] Okay, 730 Alpha,
Fire Centre.

You can check
the winds are picking up,

and I'm seeing
increased fire activity.

Copy that.

[Dan] The fires
that we're dealing with now

on the landscape

are so much more challenging

than anything I've experienced
in the last 28 years.

2003 was
one of the first seasons

where there was
significant home losses in B.C.

Fire sizes that summer
were abnormally large,

and we were, like, "Wow,

this is
an unprecedented season."

[♪♪♪]

Then comes 2009,

significant large fires again.

2010, significant large fires.

2012, 2015,

2017, 2018,

when we thought,

"We're almost burning
a million hectares.

Wow, like, where is this
coming from?"

This past season,
2.8 million hectares.

The temperatures
are getting hotter.

I feel like
we're getting more lightning.

We're going through
these periods of longer drought.

Climate change is real,

and we're experiencing it

in a very accelerated process.

The word "unprecedented"
seems fitting right now,

but in five years,

will that still
seem to be the case?

[♪♪♪]

[train horn blasting]

[train cars rattling]

[train horn blasting]

[Tiffany]
So, this was our property.

Our house was this way,

and then we had
a rental apartment

on this corner.

Somewhere around here
was our--

our front walkway.

There was a dining room,

and our kitchen,

and stairs that went down
to our living room.

I was standing
just on our front steps

and past my car

was the grocery store,

and beyond there,

there was a huge tree
engulfed in flames,

and it was all just
billowing smoke,

and everything behind
was on fire.

Yeah.

[news report]
Breaking news tonight.

After setting a new record
for hottest temperature

ever recorded in Canada,

a fire has engulfed
the town of Lytton, B.C.

[Tiffany, on recording]
We've gotta leave town.

The town is on fire.

-[car horn honking]
-Go!

[news report]
They had no warning.

Essentially, they smelled smoke,

-and within 15 minutes--
-Get! Go, go!

--the entire village
was engulfed in flames.

[Tiffany, on recording]
Let's make sure

Grandma's coming, okay?

[news report] We've been
hearing from experts

what extreme fire danger
there is right now in B.C.,

well, this is case in point,

-right here, in Lytton.
-[Tiffany] Hurry up!

Hurry up!

[car horn honking]

[news reporter]
An evacuation alert

went out this evening,

so one would hope everybody
managed to get out safely,

but it is exceedingly difficult

to get more specific details
than that at the moment.

[news report]
Before this week,

the highest temperature
ever recorded in Canada

was 45 degrees Celsius,
set in 1937,

but Lytton has broken
that record

for a third day in a row.

Sunday, the temperature
reached 46.6.

Monday, it reached 47.9,

and today, it reached
49.6 degrees Celsius.

[woman sobbing]

Oh, my God!

[phone ringing]

Hello?

Okay.

We got a fire near Nelson?

[♪♪♪]

Hey, hon'?
I've got a fire!

Okay...

just gotta call Callum.

-[line ringing]
-Come on, Cal.

[♪♪♪]

Hey, Callum!

Yeah, we got a fire.

[starting motorcycle]
Yeah, just outside of Nelson.

Okay, can you call
the rest of the crew?

Okay, see you at base.

[♪♪♪]

[Chloe]
Southeast Fire Centre,

this is Southeast 730 Alpha.

Southeast 730 Alpha.
Copy that.

[Chloe] You can check

that we're headed
to the lightning-strike fire

that was reported
on the ridge above Nelson.

This is that I.P.R.
from this morning,

and we're just gonna go
take a look.

I'll set my next check-in
in two hours.

Copy that.

[Chloe] Initial attack
is a four-person crew

that heads out to smaller fires.

[helicopter whirring]

It's our job to get there
as quick as we can

and try to suppress
and contain the fire

before it grows
into a bigger incident.

We're basically

the First Responders
of wildfire.

One of my jobs is calling in
the Initial Fire Report.

Basically, outlining
what you're seeing on the ground

to Fire Centre,

and so, you're thinking, like,

what kind of air support
is available?

Air tankers,
retardants, skimmers,

more buckets.

It's all problem-solving.

[Chloe]
As Initial Attack Crew Leader,

you're the incident commander
for that fire.

You're planning ahead
on how you want to action it.

You're assessing
what resources you have

and what resources you need.

[Chloe]
And you're also prioritizing

the safety of the crew,

and everyone else on the fire.

You're trusted with bucket crew
for fire 502.

I took lots of photos
for you guys.

Down here
is the main area of concern.

It's probably about 200 metres
from the ridge.

Zulu Hotel Zulu
will be back on site

to support us
with some buckets today.

Yeah.

[♪♪♪]

[Chloe] You have to develop

a really good sense
of situational awareness.

The fire itself

is progressively
creating dangers.

So if you're on a steep slope,

even managing helicopters
is a big danger.

When you're assessing the fire,

you're thinking,
"What dangers are out there?"

and then assessing,
as the fire progresses,

"What will happen
if the fire grows?"

[Tiffany]
There was a train above town,

and its brakes
just started screeching,

to the point where
my son wouldn't hold my hand,

crossing the street.

He just wanted
to cover his ears,

and, I said,
"Well, that's weird.

What's it, like,
coming to such a halt for?"

[brakes screeching]

We get in the house.

I go upstairs,
use the washroom,

and I come down,

and I just kinda get
this smell of campfire.

I open the front door,

and the building between us
and the nearest house

was the grocery store,

and right on the other side,
it was on fire.

Yup, that's right by my house.

And then I look over,

and all behind the buildings
on Main Street,

right below that track

are just fully in flames...

Please don't come this way.

...and I'm just, like,
"Okay..." [laughing nervously]

Told my son,
"Grab your tablet."

We had some chickens,

and I just
threw them in the air,

because I didn't want them
to be trapped, and I didn't--

Couldn't take them in the car
with three dogs.

The fire truck was coming down.

I don't know where it had been,

and it was just black.

I got in the car,

and I just turned
onto Main Street,

and just started
laying on the horn,

honking at everybody.

I got to about
the gas station,

and the bridge into town,

the people
who were blocking the bridge

were turning around,

because it was coming across
the train bridge,

and the flames
were licking the bridge.

Everything was black
and on fire,

and I just, like,
had a mental breakdown.

[N'kixw'stn] I was in
the United States military,

and that helped me
survive the fire.

I had just taken a shower,

and I was already in my pyjamas,

and this young man
came barging in, and he goes...

he says, "You gotta
get the hell outta here!"

He says, "The town's on fire!"

I says, "What do you mean?"
and he says, "Look!"

And I looked out
my picture window,

and the--
the smoke was going this way.

It wasn't just going this way.

It was going this way,

and I ran out, it just felt
like I was running into fire,

'cause it was just hot.

My face started burning,
my arms, my legs,

and I say-- I was just going,
"Oh, my God!

God, do something,
do something!"

And the guy opened my car door,

and he says, "Get in!"

And when I got in,

it was just, like,
getting into an oven.

And I heard the car, uh,

behind my house, explode,

and I said, "Holy shit!"

And that's was--

I went into "Vietnam mode"--

self-preservation.

I made a U-ey,

and it was just, like, Vietnam.

Everything was red,

and the only thing I could see

was the red building structure,

and I was following
the yellow line,

and I turned right too soon,

but I ran over the curb,
and the grass, and everything,

but I was gunning it.

You know, the whole town
was on fire.

You know,
the reserve was on fire.

You know, people were running
for their lives.

[truck horn honks]

[♪♪♪]

[Katelynn] We're just
working from south to north,

spraying a 10-foot wet edge

with the Rattler Unit Crew
here today.

We do lots of interface fires,

uh, especially
the last couple years,

it's been more and more common.

It hits pretty close to home

because of the Lytton Rattlers,

we lost our home
a couple years ago, in 2021,

so, it's, uh,
very close to our hearts,

and very personal,

so, we, uh, try to give back
as much as we can

to other, uh, communities,
when we can.

Not a lot of crews can say

that their hometown burned down
while they weren't there

because they were
on a different fire,

helping another community out,

so... that adds another layer
to it, as well, obviously.

[JT] Yeah, it was tough,

because we were actually
on the fire up here in Lillooet,

when that Lytton fire
first popped off.

We could hear it on the radio,

and it's, like...
yeah, it was tough.

We got redirected
from Lillooet back to Lytton,

and my first initial thoughts

were if my family got out
or not?

I could care less
about the homes,

and just trying to get
into communication

with my folks and my brother,

and, uh, yeah,

a big bag of mixed-up emotions.

Once I found out
they were all good,

then we were able to focus

on protecting
the rest of the communities

that were still salvageable
throughout that incident.

We come in here, basically,

you know, we have a job to do,

you know,
and that's what we're here for.

Just to stay focused
at the task at hand, you know,

and just deal with it,

'cause we've been
in this situation before,

but it definitely
becomes personal

when it's in our backyard,

anywhere, actually.

[Lorna] Initially,

I don't think you even, really
thought of your losses.

You just thought,
"Are people safe?"

And the ones I feel sorry for--

I mean, I'm not
a spring chicken, either--

but the ones I feel sorry for
were the kinda over-80s,

that were moved to Merritt,
or Spences Bridge, or whatever,

into a motel room,

and they were living there
for months.

[Tiffany] I will not live
downtown ever again.

We're taking a buy-out
with our insurance

to buy a house above town,

because I refuse.

I couldn't do that.

I wouldn't be able
to sleep at night.

If that fire happened at night,

we'd probably all be dead.

[N'kixw'stn]
Since the fire,

we've had lots and lots
of deaths,

of heart attacks, and strokes,

and, you know,

I guess it's the after-effect
of, you know, extreme stress.

A lot of residents
have passed due to cancer.

My husband's Nanna included.

She--
Even right before she died,

she said, "You know,
we can't pretend

like this didn't cause this."

[♪♪♪]

It is hard to know
how to keep going,

but you just have to.

[♪♪♪]

We're the canary
in the coal mine.

We had the heat, and the chaos,

but it's coming for everybody.

We weren't prepared,

and I don't believe
that society is prepared

in the same kind of way,

and, so, we have to--
as a society--

work together
to make changes now,

because, as we discovered,

if you are scrambling
at the last minute,

you leave people behind.

Yeah, copy.

Uh, crew right now is just...

[Chloe] The heli's gone
to pick up Tom and Tristan,

and after that,
the pilot will go back

and bring us some gear.

If I'm coming
to an emerging fire,

there's, like,
a lot of different things

you're considering,

and thinking small picture,

and then big picture, too.

Like, what will happen
if the fire grows?

And what resources
you're going to need,

in what timeframe.

You're coming up
with a game-plan.

[helicopter whirring]

[Chloe] You can check 730 crew
complete on fire N72500,

and I'll set my next check-in
in two hours.

[Fire Centre] Copy that.

[helicopter whirring]

[Daniel]
So a net's gonna come down,

we're gonna load up this gear.

We've kinda weighed it

to make sure
that it's appropriate

for the capacity
of the helicopter.

We use this on remote IA fires,

where there's not a road
that's next to the target,

so we need to be slinging gear

from where we can stage vehicles
and have gear,

up to the fire.

[helicopter whirring]

[Chloe] One of the biggest
things that you're looking for

when you're assessing the fire,

is where is
the closest water source?

If you can find endless water

in a creek
that's a kilometre away,

and you know that once
you establish that hose-lay,

that you're just gonna have
full pressure the whole time,

then it's worth putting in
that infrastructure.

[helicopter whirring]

Obviously,
the most challenging

is when there's
no water available,

and one of
the most obvious ways

is to get a bladder,

and you request a helicopter
to bucket into it.

We got our bladder set up here,

and, uh, we got
this medium helicopter, here,

that's gonna be runnin' runs
from the lake,

filling it up over there,

and then dump it
into this bladder here,

and then, basically, just--

we use these in scenarios

where there's no, like,
bomber water source.

[chuckling] ...but

that's also the most expensive
way to get water.

[Callum] Here he comes
to bring us some water.

[♪♪♪]

[Chloe] This fire's
on the top of a ridge.

and there's
no other water around,

so although it's expensive,

it's the only thing
that we have right now.

[♪♪♪]

Approximately
three hectares in size.

The crew is currently working
on establishing a bladder-site

and pushing hose.

There's numerous spots
outside the main body,

up to 400 metres away,

uh, Burning Rank, one.

Pockets Rank, two.

[Fire Centre] Uh, do you have
any requests,

other than, obviously,
more aviation support?

[Chloe] Yeah, I think
we could use some more crew

on the ground here.

I'd like to get
another four-pack in.

[Fire Centre]
Okay, that's good info.

[♪♪♪]

Ah, just making sure
everything's tight.

Before a guy gets...

on with his day.

[Ray] These machines
are kind of like

the staple of our wildfire
business

here in Canada.

It's used for quick,
initial attack.

Basically, fire suppression.

Move up to nine passengers
at a time.

Bucket on a fire,

or fill up a bladder quickly
and efficiently.

-All clear, Johnny?
-Clear.

[♪♪♪]

[starting engine]

[Ray] The weight of the load
that you're swinging around,

you just get used to
that feeling,

and knowing where the load is,

and 150-foot line,

to 100-foot line,
to 120-foot line.

Once you get used to
a certain length,

you can really dial it in
pretty slick,

especially when
you're filling up a bladder,

you're onto a fire.

Sometimes, what people see
on the ground

is not necessarily
what's happening

200 feet above
where the relay tank is.

You've got three different
winds happening,

and you're trying to bring
the load down to the bladder

and, uh...

it's the machine shuddering,

and you're just kinda
waiting for it

to kind of fall through itself,

and then, you know,
you're grabbing the power

to be-- making sure
that, you know,

nothing dangerous
is gonna happen, but it's...

It's definitely tricky.

It's hot, it's high,

and it's...

yeah, it's dangerous.

[♪♪♪]

The intensity seems to be
a little higher every year.

A buddy of mine calls it

"the fire wind
that comes out of the south,"

and, you know, it's challenging,

but I want to be around
for that sort of stuff.

Oh, I love this machine!

I love just flying the--

I love just flying the line.

[fire hissing and crackling]

[Chloe] We've been
hiking to the fire,

and as we get closer,

we're seeing more spot-fires
that have spread

from the original
lightning strike.

I've asked Callum
to get a bladder set up

on the ridge I saw,

while we get closer to the fire.

[♪♪♪]

[Chloe] Awesome.

That's great to hear.

[Mitch McCallum]
Yeah, 710's coming out

to help Chloe on 2500.

Three hectares is
a bit much for one crew.

[Callum] It takes a bit of time
to get some hose laid out

and get people on the ground,

but once we start getting
that cold stuff

on the hot stuff, uh,

it goes pretty quick, you know?

It's just kinda
where the cliff area is,

so what I'm thinking
is three-way here,

and then punch
in the middle of these.

That's the main body
of the fire,

and then it's spotted, like,

400 metres down slope.

[helicopter whirring]

Also just on your radar,

I think we'll probably
need some food

if we're gonna be camping out
another night.

Yeah, it really wants to go.

[helicopter whirring]

-Nice!
-Yean, that's good.

[Callum] Nice job.

Yeah, direct it on that.

Nice workin'
at the end of the day.

[Chloe] Yeah,
it was a successful day.

We got a lot of water on it.

Definitely
took it down a notch,

but I think
we gotta call it a day.

It's getting dark.

We don't want anyone
getting hurt.

Let's, um, pack 'er in.

Come and set up camp.

Setting up people's tents.

Yeah, kinda saves them
one thing to do.

Foxtrot 56523...

But, yeah, we've been doing
lots of camping this year, um...

which is really nice.

It's nice to wake up, uh,

just right on the fire, and...

usually some
pretty beautiful spots, too.

Holy, shit, look at this.

It's set up?

Living the dream up here.

Yeah, that's great.

We got the fuckin'
crème de la crème here.

This thing's sick.

A little slope, but, you know,

it's gonna work.

[Chloe] Dinnertime.

It's a good day.

Pretty tired.

[sniffling]

[♪♪♪]

[Chloe] All right,
where am I going here?

[♪♪♪]

Oh, yeah.

Right here!

[crew member]
Chloe, do you need any help?

[Chloe] No, I'm good.

Just, uh, gettin' cozy here.

Chateau.

[crew member]
That's gonna be a beauty.

Nice and soft.

[Chloe] Yeah.

[distant thunder rolling]

[fire crackling]

[♪♪♪]

[automated voice]
Attitude mode.

[Chloe] Confirm all unnecessary
hardware is off and everything?

Waitin' on satellites.

[automated voice]
...all points updated.

Check map to confirm.

Okay, now we're good.

Taking off.

[drone rotors buzzing]

[Cole] They use us at night,

so we can identify hot spots,

and hot spots
jumping perimeters,

so we'll fly over
and scan that whole fire,

put 'em on a map,

and then we'll send it to PWCC.

They can use it

in their morning briefing
at 6:00 a.m.,

and they can go,
"Here's our priority.

Here's our hot spots,"

and they know exactly
where to go,

and there's no wasted manpower.

Red spots here
are gonna be your hotspots.

Um, everything else
is kind of colder,

so this is just gonna read

what the hottest thing
in the image is,

so right here,

you're seeing this is
34 degrees Celsius.

[Cole] Pre-drones,

they used to get
in a helicopter at night

and have a guy out there
with a little IR camera,

and he'll just stick his camera
out the window,

and either take pictures,
or just fly around.

It's an unsafe and inefficient
way to do it, as well.

You don't have an exact point
of where the hotspot is...

[camera clicking]

...and these guys
are just guessing,

flying around at night.

Okay, there's
gonna be one here.

It's not gonna show up.

It's underneath
that tree right there...

[Cole] We don't have anyone
in our drone,

so we can fly from the ground,

do all our scanning,

and if there's an accident,

there's no one involved.

There's no death
or safety risk there.

[drone rotors buzzing]

[engine shutting off]

[airplane engines powering up]

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Good morning, everyone.

Welcome to the Southeast
Fire Centre weather call

for August 15th.

We'll start off
with a roll call.

Cranbrook, you on?

[Cranbrook station]
Good morning.

[Fire Centre] Good morning.
Invermere?

[Invermere station]
Good morning.

[Fire Centre]
Morning. Columbia?

[Columbia station]
Columbia's here.

[Fire Centre] Good morning.
Arrow?

[Arrow station]
Morning, Grace.

[Grace, Fire Centre]
Morning, Jed. Boundary?

[Boundary station]
Yeah, good morning.

[Grace] Good morning, James.

Kootenay Lake?

[Kootenay Lake station]
Morning.

[Grace] Good morning.

Okay, so we'll turn over
to Jesse Ellis for the weather.

Okay, great, thanks, Grace.

The infrared satellite picture

shows us
in a hot, westerly flow.

We've got a frontal system
up here across the north,

that's brushing mainly north
of our region,

but we're gonna bring some cloud
into the north half,

or third of our region,

by the end of the day today,

providing some moderation
to our temperatures and RHs,

but for the most part,

think about
just one more very hot,

and very dry day.

We broke the all-time
daily record

in Castlegar yesterday here,

and so we're probably gonna
break some more daily records

again today.

[Chloe] I woke up at 12:30,

when it started really goin,'
the wind.

Felt like you were gonna
get pushed off the cliff.

Yeah.

Lots of lightning
around, too, and...

I'm assuming more starts,

after last night, for sure.

I think Mitch is gonna
get up in the heli today

and take a look around.

Because we definitely have
two over there,

one here...

potentially one down there...

...and that big one, too.

How was the night?

It was all right.

A bit of wind picked up.

The fly on my tent, like,
popped off, um,

from the wind,

and, uh, I was pretty worried
the whole time it was gonna go,

so I got out buck naked,

and wrangled the fly
back onto the tent.

Yeah.

Luckily nobody saw nothin'.

[Callum]
In a wildfire environment,

you get put through

these incredibly stressful
situations,

but at the same time,
you build these bonds

to these people
that you work with.

Everybody has a role to play,

and we all wear
a lot of different hats,

but it really works well
when we're all together.

Objective for today
is to leave it--

to have it UC by end of day.

That's given if we have, um,
medium all day.

Like, there's a good potential

that we could get pulled away
to other targets, so...

[Callum] Every time I think
about not coming back,

I think about my friends,

and I think it's a pretty
tight-knit family even,

and, honestly, like,

I can't imagine not working
in that environment.

[♪♪♪]

[starting motor]

[♪♪♪]

[Chloe] Hey, Andy.

[Andy] Hey, Chloe.

[Chloe] I'm in position
for the bucketing.

I'll guide you in.

Okay, go for it.

[Chloe] Making quick decisions

is something that you develop
over time.

If I'm coming
to an emerging fire,

there's, like,
a lot of different things

you're considering.

It comes down to seconds

when you have to make
that decision.

[radio] Downhill of steep,
recently burned ground.

Prior to concerned landing,

ask an appropriate facility
upon encountering severe winds.

Strong, gusty winds could result

in a steady increase
in fire behaviour

and a changing direction
of fire spread.

[Chloe] You're faced
with challenges every day.

You have
the situational awareness,

and you see something happen,

a tree comes down around you,

and you're, like,
"Okay, this is real."

Oh, no!

The pressure
of the camera got to me.

I know.

[Chloe] We're actually making
really good progress

with the hosing,

just picking away
at the little spots down below.

The crew is workin' uphill
towards the main body,

which is right here,

and yeah, that's kinda
where the most of the heat is,

is just down below
in the middle section,

and then, um, there's
a bit more to the west,

but we'll just
keep punching line that way,

and keep hitting the spots.

[hose spraying]

[♪♪♪]

Hi, I'm Terry.

I'm the, uh, pilot today
for fire patrol,

and this is Allison,
the fire spotter.

[Allison] We're going looking
for the tiny little fires

that are invisible
to the average eye.

This is our little Cessna,
Yankee, Charlie, Lima.

Usually in areas

where there's not a lot
of human traffic,

and try and get crews out
to put them out

before they turn into
something big.

[Terry] All right, Nelson,

thanks for
joining me on the ramp,

we're taxiing for run-up.

[Allison] Yesterday,

we found a fire
near Meadow Creek,

near an active logging block.

Called an IA crew to come in,

and put it out quickly,

and they did.

[Terry] We go where
the lightning strikes happen...

Yankee, Charlie, Lima,
Fire Centre.

[Terry] ...and that's where,
usually, we find fires.

[Allison] Chasing lightning.

[♪♪♪]

Fire Centre,
Yankee, Charlie, Lima.

Yankee, Charlie, Lima,
Fire Centre, go ahead.

I have that IFR ready for you

if you're ready to copy?

Copy that, go ahead.

Alpha, One. Bravo, One...

[line ringing]

Hi, Cedar.

It's Toni
from Southeast Fire Centre.

You ready for some information?

Okay, Rank two,

so it's an open flame.

It's in heavy timber.

Uh, no water on site.

Suspected cause is lightning.

Let us know
if it crosses the border.

[laughing]

Okay, thank you.

Okay, bye.

[♪♪♪]

You need to let
Delta, Charlie, Mike know, um,

the IFR's been passed
onto the Americans.

They do not need
our assistance at this time.

[♪♪♪]

[Tiffany]
We lost our hospital,

our ambulance station,

RCMP,

two churches.

We lost the bank,

two or three restaurants.

My mother-in-law had a store,

the grocery store,

the Legion,

the library,

the village office,

the pool,

the museum...

[♪♪♪]

And then
whole family groups' homes.

So, my husband, alone,
in the Haugen family,

I think five households lost,

um...

yeah... everything.

[♪♪♪]

[Lorna]
There's about 2,500 people

within five kilometres of town,

but in the media,

they just kept coming up,
"There's 250 people.

Why don't they just
move somewhere else?"

but they didn't understand

that, um,
that the community was bigger

than the 250 people

that pay taxes in the town,
you know?

It was much greater,

and that's what made
our community.

[♪♪♪]

[Tiffany] Nobody was allowed
in the village for months,

because everything
was considered too toxic.

The debris, the dirt...

everything.

We weren't allowed on our grass.

We weren't allowed
on the sidewalk.

We had to sit
in full Tyvek suits,

masks, respirators, everything--

on the street.

As time went on,

and you start remembering
things you lost,

and realizing, "Oh, you know,
when my dad died,

I got everything that
he was left from my grandpa,

including his war medals,"

and I'm thinking,
"Oh, now, you know,

none of my cousins
ever get to see that."

I went there 13 times,

and I crawled across
all the rubble

in a Tyvek suit,

either in the snow,
or the rain, or the sun,

sweating or freezing.

We never found them.

[♪♪♪]

[N'kixw'stn]
Two months later,

they found my cat
under my basement,

behind plyboards.

She made it.

She's with me now.

She was burned in her face

and her little arms,
and her legs,

and her belly.

Uh, SPCA kept her
for two months,

helping her recover,

and, uh, so now
we're like this.

She brought a chipmunk
for my breakfast this morning.

Rattler One...

[voice indistinct over radio]

Div Alpha, go ahead.

Hey, uh...

[James] Lytton, itself,

is a First Nations
dominant population.

It's a small community,

so a lot of folks know me

as, you know, a firefighter
with the Rattlers,

and, hopefully, I do
somewhat of an inspiration

for the younger guys.

[JT] They started, uh,
the Lytton Rattlers in 2007.

We were trying to come up
with a name and a logo

for our unit crew.

We got, uh,

one of the pictographs
from the Stein Valley.

It's an owl,

and it's got a sheep
and a deer there.

[James] It's a spotted owl,

and it protects everything

within the Stein Valley
Heritage Park.

We've got the approval
from the Elders from Lytton

to utilize the symbol,

and carrying the symbol around

is they're protecting us
while we're out on the fires,

and we wear the symbol

to protect our hometown
and Mother Earth itself.

[♪♪♪]

[JT] Every year

I take the crew back
to where the pictograph is.

It's really neat for them

because they see what it means,
and what it is,

and we bring Elders in,

and they talk about it as well,

so it's good exposure for them

just to know the background
of the unit crew.

There's two different styles
of the owl.

One's a protector,
and one is a hunter,

so we're kind of both, you know?

We're a hunter of the beast,

the fire,

and also we're protectors.

[♪♪♪]

[voice crackling over radio]

[Chloe] We're headed back
to check on Fire 2500.

We're gonna make sure
it's out,

and then if it is,
we'll de-mob' the gear.

I've never seen a fire
so spotty

-with, like--
- [radio] Copy that.

...you know, it was like
three hectares,

but it felt like 35,

just with, like, how much edge
you actually had to hit,

but honestly, like,

the views today
will be incredible.

Yeah, I'm actually
pretty fired up to be back.

[♪♪♪]

[Chloe] Right now,
we're setting up

for a patrol of the fire.

The goal is to make sure
there's no more heat,

no smoke,

and then we can call it out
if nothing's found.

Making sure
we're not missing anything.

We finished our final patrol,

and Green patrol
is no smoke or heat found.

and I'm gonna update the status
to "out".

[helicopter whirring]

[♪♪♪]

Okay...
[camera clicking]

...onto the next.

[♪♪♪]

Next time on Wildfire...

There was a lightning strike
just north of Nelson.

It's highly visible
to the entire community.

This fire started
late in the day yesterday.

I think this fire is well beyond
initial attack.

It looks like
we're going to need

multiple rounds of air tankers.

That looks workable,
and I would actually suggest

we put a line of retardant
through there.

I think we'll need a unit crew
in here as well.

I asked
the medium bucket support

to come up
and start bucketing.

Here he comes!

-For such a little fire...
-Yeah.

...it has a lot of challenges.

We've got to get it in here!

What a mess.