Crews battling fierce forest fires in the parched mountains of British Columbia managed to hold their own against the flames, but they kept a nervous eye on the sky for forecast high winds and lightning strikes. The progress against three fires near Kamloops, about 170 miles northeast of Vancouver, has allowed some evacuated residents to return home, but an estimated 4,000 are still displaced and some have no houses or jobs to go back to. Large fires are also burning in southwestern Alberta, as well as in Montana and Washington state, not far from the Canadian border, as the entire region swelters through a dry summer.