As the Bald Ridge wildfire near Summerland, B.C., continues to burn, many are wondering how the blaze spread so quickly. …the Bald Ridge wildfire quickly grew to 50 square kilometres in just three hours after it was first detected. …“It was absolutely shocking to see that fire in Summerland go from an ignition and then spread to a thousand hectares within an hour or so, 5,000 overnight and 10,000 within 24 hours,” Lori Daniels, Centre for Wildfire Coexistence at the University of British Columbia said. …Cliff Chapman with the B.C. Wildfire Service said conditions in that region of British Columbia right now “are explosive.” …The fires across B.C. are occurring at a time when “fires are coming on the shield of prolonged droughts,” according to Daniels. …Daniels believes that, “if we have forest and trees near us now in Canada,” people in the country are “susceptible” to evacuations and wildfire effects.