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Airbnb hosts free up homes to B.C. wildfire evacuees, firefighters

More than five dozen homes are already listed
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Airbnb is inviting hosts on Vancouver Island, the Okanagan and the Kootenays to open up their homes for free to wildfire evacuees and firefighters.

The push is part of a program the short-term rental company started in 2012 to help Hurricane Sandy evacuees in the U.S.

It also ran last year in B.C. – the most devastating wildfire season in terms of hectares burned.

Currently, 66 free rentals are available for those fleeing or fighting fires.


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