The Chief Fire Information officer with the BC Wildfire Service says there are 556 fires burning in the province and 50 of those are “fires of note”.
Kevin Skrepnek says that’s a considerable number and the highest he’s seen in his time with the Wildfire Service.
He says there’s not a lot of relief on the horizon, weatherwise…..
Emergency Management B.C.’s Jessica Post says there are 28 evacuation orders in effect impacting two thousand 9 hundred properties and 49 alerts in place affecting more than 11 thousand properties.
Post says those who have self-evacuated should go back home…..
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