Wildfire Risk In B.c. Remains High Due To Heat Wave And Drought - Beritaja

Wildfire consequence successful B.C. is still a interest for about of the state done September and October owed to a precocious record-breaking power activity and ongoing drought.

There are presently much than 120 wildfires successful the province, 10 per cent of which are burning retired of control.

The occurrence threat standing remains precocious to utmost successful the Cariboo and Southwest Interior.

Firefighters opportunity the upwind conditions mean autumn will beryllium busier than normal.

A caller wildfire sparked adjacent Okanagan Lake connected Thursday, prompting tactical evacuations for a mini number of homes beneath Tronson Road adjacent the Sommerset area.

According to the B.C. Wildfire Service, the occurrence is now considered nether power and remains astatine conscionable nether 1.5 hectares successful size.

As summertime winds down, campfire prohibitions stay successful place, arsenic only the northwest and southeast occurrence centres let Category 1 fires.

Earlier this week, campfires were erstwhile again permitted successful parts of the Coastal Fire Centre, including Campbell River, North Island Central Coast and the Sunshine Coast wood district.

No 1 from the B.C. Wildfire Service was disposable for remark connected Friday.