Environment Canada has issued an air quality warning for parts of B.C.’s Fraser Canyon, including Lytton, due to smoke coming from the Brunswick Creek fire.
The fire continues to burn out of control just north of Boston Bar and exploded in growth over the weekend.
The fire is now an estimated 1,230 hectares in size and has prompted three evacuation orders and one evacuation alert.
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The BC Wildfire Service said the growth over the weekend was driven by wind gusts reaching 50 kilometres an hour.
It has forced evacuations of 155 properties in the North Bend and Fishblue Lake areas of the Fraser Valley Regional District, as well as from the Boothroyd Indian Band.
More than 250 properties are on evacuation alert.
The blaze was discovered last Thursday.
Officials believe the blaze was human-caused, but an investigation in the coming days will determine how it started.
Reminds me of 215 other slow hustles for billions of dollars but maybe it’s a hate crime to point it out.
Getting evacuated and maybe losing your home is bad enough. Your other fear is that after the fact when the FN move in and need to do their “search” for ancestral remains and artefacts before you can rebuild.
Just ask the people of Lytton BC who after 5 years are still waiting to rebuild. 5 years!!
The local FNs claim to have found thousands of artefacts but refuse to let any experts or universities see them for some made up “sacred respect” reasons.
Meanwhile a few dozen home and property owners wait homeless.
I think the FN finally let the rebuilds begin this year because they realised everyone had figured out they were just profiting off it and slow walking it.
One guy was told it would cost $82,000 to do the archaeological work. Homes there were only worth 250,000 thousand.
It’s just flat out extortion.