'Close-knit family': Vancouver Island residents help neighbours cut off by wildfire-affected highway

From checking in on pets to offering spare rooms, Vancouver Island residents are helping out neighbours cut off from their homes because of a highway closure prompted by a wildfire east of Port Alberni. 

Highway 4 has been closed since Tuesday as the Cameron Bluffs wildfire continues to burn near the road and is now around two square kilometres in size.

A logging-road detour was set up connecting Port Alberni and other western communities to the rest of the Island, but it has been closed for hours after a vehicle rolled into a lake along the route, effectively cutting off tens of thousands of residents. It is set to reopen at 9 p.m. Friday.

But amid the blaze and

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