One Step Forward, Two Steps Back In BC Fires
The CBC reports: Massive B.C. wildfire pushed by rising winds
Cooler temperatures were welcomed Saturday by crews battling the Terrace Mountain wildfire in the B.C. Interior, but rising winds have breathed new life into the massive blaze.
As a result, 2,150 Kelowna residents are under an evacuation order, with 2,526 on evacuation alert, according to Kelowna emergency operations centre spokesman Bruce Smith.
Earlier Saturday, a fire information officer had predicted that rising winds would likely cause trouble.
“The winds are up, so we could see some flare-ups on the interior of the fire,” Mitch Miller told CBC News.
…More than 400 firefighters are still fighting the blaze, which encompasses about 85 square kilometres of Okanagan forest.
They get a fire line established and then the winds kick up and the fire leaps them. The terrain reduces the effectiveness of backfires that were successful in the Mount McLean fire. The winter snow is the only sure solution for the province.
The BC Fire Map shows there on now four active fires on Vancouver Island alone.
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SB County is on fire…again.
Just toss more moolah into the CA budgetary money pit.
.-= last blog ..Dasani =-.
Chaparral and 80 years without a fire – that’s going to be a mess back in those mountains.