The order is expanded due to the immediate danger to life and safety caused by the Pear Lake wildfire, which is an estimated 1,384 hectares in size.
With blueberry harvesting season underway, on July 16, RCMP were called to the Horne Street overpass after crates of blueberries spilled onto the road.
This ridge of high pressure will bring elevated temperatures during the day and while it will cool down at night, temperatures will remain high.
Details are still coming in, but RCMP confirmed to Global News that one person is in custody and they say there is no risk to the public.
He made the comment in Prince Edward Island as Canada’s premiers met and discussed U.S. President Donald Trump’s new wave of tariffs on Canadian goods.
More than 600 properties are on evacuation order in B.C., while 5,700 properties are under evacuation alert as 87 wildfires burn in the province.
RCMP in northern B.C. said in a release on Saturday that a missing mother and her one-month-old son have been located safely.
‘Huge flash of light. Big bang and I felt a really big shock in my leg,’ Cooper Preston, who was in the upstairs bedroom of his Courtenay home, told Global News.
The footage, captured on Tuesday afternoon near Kaslo Avenue and East Hastings Street, shows the senior outside her home selling Playland and PNE parking on her private property.