By Canadian Press Staff Premier David Eby has said British Columbia’s wildfire season turned “brutal,” with a ferocious blaze that led to the death of an 80-year-old woman and forced some 20,000 people out of their homes in the south Okanagan last weekend. Here are key facts about B.C.’s ongoing wildfire situation, which prompted officials to declare a provincial state of emergency on Aug. 8. The Bald Range fire — The stretch of Highway 97 through the evacuated community of Summerland, B.C., has been reopened between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. after the wildfire forced its closure overnight on Aug. 7. — The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen said there was no stopping and no access to side roads leading to areas still subject to evacuation orders without a temporary pass….
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