5 Jul 2021

Lightning starts fires in Canada

From Morning Report, 6:52 am on 5 July 2021

The heat dome may have gone but lightning strikes have continued to spark dozens more wildfires in western Canada.

Emergency services say they there are now trying to control more than 170 fires across the province of British Columbia.

Over the weekend police investigators have reached the town of Lytton which recorded Canada's highest temperature a day before it burned to the ground.

Canada correspondent Laura McQuillan spoke to Corin Dann.