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The town of Lytton, British Columbia, caught fire and was completely evacuated Wednesday, just one day after setting a new all-time Canadian heat record with a high of 121 degrees Fahrenheit.

The Daytona Beach Fire Department says it will demolish the Calvary Baptist Church after a fire broke out there yesterday destroying most of the building.

The fire is called the Duke Island Road Fire.

Everglades National Park is looking for information about a string of fires set near the main entrance over the last two months.

Five women who made history by working an entire firefighting shift with no men are still thriving at their fire department in Florida months later.

Scientists have linked an increasing prevalence and intensity of wildfires to climate change, and residents of Western states are grappling with the dread that severe fire seasons are the new normal.

Dry conditions and low humidity are to blame.

Orange County Fire Chief Jim Fitzgerald says it’s not enough that the state now offers benefits to firefighters with cancer. The new fire chief says departments need to do more to reduce the number of firefighters who get sick.

The “Horse Stable Fire” is located in the Golf View and Flora Vista area.

More than 400 fire departments throughout Florida have received decontamination kits that can be used to decrease a firefighter’s exposure to cancer-causing substances.