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Ongoing wildfires in British Columbia cast a haze over Pinantan Lake on Saturday, July 31, as multiple blazes burned nearby.This footage, filmed by Wilfried Mulder, shows the smoke-filled sky ...
Fire name Hectares burned Fire Centre Date discovered Comments Link Midwinter Lake fire 32,000 Prince George Chilko Lake/Chilko River fire 29,202 Cariboo McLure fire 26,420 Kamloops Okanagan Mountain Park fire 25,600 Kelowna Lamb Creek fire 11,882 Southeast [4] McGillvray fire 10,979 Kamloops
The fire burned around 23,015 hectares (56,871 acres) and between 30 and 40 structures were destroyed. [88] [89] The response to the fire included widespread evacuation orders of the surrounding area, displacing around 5000 people. [90] This wildfire was the largest recorded in the history of Nova Scotia. [84] [91]
The wildfire was still actively burning along the west and southwest flanks. [12] On September 21, the B.C. Wildfire Services reported that the wildfire was "being held" and that was fire was "not likely to spread past predetermined boundaries under current conditions." [13] The area restriction order remained in place until October 3. However ...
Following almost a full week of record-breaking, deadly heat, a community at the epicenter of the worst conditions now has a new tragedy to overcome. The village of Lytton, located in southern ...
Of the 291 fires recorded through the season, 105 were human-caused and 206 needed a full firefighting response. [49] The first significant fires occurred in May. On May 11, fires in the northwest forced the evacuations of Cranberry Portage (a community of about 650 people), several nearby cottage subdivisions, and Bakers Narrows Provincial Park.
The McLure fire was reported to the BC Forest Service at 1:02 p.m. Crews and airtankers were dispatched within 22 minutes. Resources on the fire by July 31 were; 100 firefighters (with 45 persons working the fire overnight), four helicopters, nine bulldozers, two excavators, and five water trucks with the McLure and Barriere Fire Departments.
The 2021 British Columbia wildfires burned across the Canadian province of British Columbia.The severity of the 2021 wildfire season has been attributed to the combination of extreme heat, lower than normal rainfall, and "repeated severe thunderstorms and lightning events" by the BC Wildfire Service, [2] and possibly exacerbated by human-caused climate change.