A wildfire that is zero per cent contained and five square kilometres in size has forced an evacuation order northwest of Pemberton.
The order affects three industrial properties – two pumice mines and the Innergex IPP. They’re all located in Boulder Creek, an area 25 kilometres northwest of town.
Ryan Wainwright, emergency operations centre director for the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, says one of the mines is not active, and people working at the other two properties have left the area.
The Upper Lillooet Forest Service Road is closed at kilometre nine, while the Hurley River Forest Service Road remains open at this time.
The fire was caused by lightning, and was 250 hectares in size Friday. It is now 5,000 hectares in size.
Wainwright says that no residential or agricultural structures are currently threatened, but says there is farmland just south of the evacuation zone.
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