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Category Archives: BC Wildfires
Evacuation alerts rescinded for Whitecroft-area; Embleton Mountain fire being held
People who live in the Whitecroft area are no longer on an evacuation alert as the nearby Embleton Mountain Fire is being held. The Thompson-Nicola Regional District has rescinded the evacuation alert...
Aug 03, 2021
Evacuation order for Spences Bridge area downgraded to evacuation alert
Twelve days after being evacuated because of the Lytton Creek wildfire, people in the Spences Bridge are will be able to go home at noon today, July 3. The 169 properties affected are as follows: 3577...
Aug 03, 2021
District of Logan Lake on evacuation alert from Tremont Creek fire; Tunkwa Lake evacuated
The District of Logan Lake has been put on evacuation alert while Tunkwa Lake Provincial Park has been evacuated because of the Tremont Creek wildfire. The alert for Logan Lake came down at about 6:30...
Jul 30, 2021
UPDATE: New wildfire near Walhachin at 0.6 hectares
UPDATE: 3:45 p.m. A new wildfire has been reported this afternoon in the Walhachin area, west of Kamloops and Savona. BC Wildfire Service information officer Kyla Fraser said crews are responding to t...
Jul 30, 2021
Embleton Mountain Fire near Sun Peaks still in mop-up stage
The BC Wildfire Service says crews battling the Embleton Mountain Fire near Sun Peaks are still in the mop-up stage. Fire Information Officer, Forrest Tower, says while the fire is looking fairly stab...
Jul 30, 2021 The Embleton Mountain fire on July 10, 2021. (Photo: Tara Bouvette)
Lytton-area households impacted by wildfires to get one-time $2,000 payment
The B.C. government says it is teaming up with the Red Cross to provide Lytton-area households impacted by the wildfire with one-time $2,000 payments. In a statement, the government says that includes...
Jul 30, 2021 The town centre in the Village of Lytton on July 6, 2021, a week after a wildfire tore through town. (Photo by John Horgan)
TNRD issues evacuation order for 125 properties for Big Bar
The massive Flat Lake wildfire in the southern Cariboo has forced 125 new evacuation orders northwest of Clinton. Many of the homes affected by the new order were put on evacuation alert just yesterda...
Jul 30, 2021 The Flat Lake wildfire on July 29, 2021. (Photo by BC Wildfire Service)
BC Wildfire Service telling people not to travel to places on evacuation order or alert
The BC Wildfire Service is urging extreme caution over long weekend when it comes to the risk of wildfires. Director of fire centre operations Rob Schweitzer says there were 244 active wildfires alrea...
Jul 30, 2021 The White Rock Lake wildfire south of Westwold, on July 25, 2021. (Photo by BC Wildfire Service)
Evacuation orders downgraded northwest of Kamloops, east of Ashcroft
More than 120 properties near wildfires in the Kamloops area were taken off of evacuation order Thursday night. The Thompson-Nicola Regional District lifted several orders near the Sparks Lake fire, w...
Jul 30, 2021
Interfor announces temporary curtailments at local sawmills because of wildfires
Interfor is expecting the wildfire situation in B.C.'s Interior to impact its sawmills in this area for "several weeks or more." The forest company has announced that its mills in Chase, Castlegar and...
Jul 29, 2021
