BC Wildfires Burning

• ‘Critical situation’: B.C. enters most challenging month for wildfires and drought

  This update from the province comes as the Downton Lake wildfire, burning north of Pemberton, has now destroyed around a dozen properties.

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  Aug 2, 2023
  
• Military deploy to help fight B.C. wildfires as thousands under evacuation alerts, orders

  More than 1.39 million hectares in B.C. have burned from wildfires so far this year with the previous record being 1.35 million hectares in 2018.

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  Jul 18, 2023
  
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• B.C. wildfire update Tuesday: Hundreds more people forced from their homes

  There have been growing calls for a provincial state of emergency as more evacuation orders and alerts have been ordered in different parts of the province.

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  Jul 20, 2021
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• A third of B.C.’s 200 wildfires are burning out of control Monday

  The biggest wildfire burning in the province right now is the Sparks Lake wildfire. It is burning 15 kilometres north of Kamloops Lake and is out of control.

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  Jul 5, 2021