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On Wednesday night, the British Columbia Fire Service reported 35 new wildfires had started in the three days before, with at least 59 fires actively burning within its zone at that point. These ...
A heat dome gripped the province of British Columbia, and much of Western North America, from June 25–30, 2021, increasing the risk of wildfires. [10]On June 30, the town of Lytton was evacuated due to a fire that destroyed most buildings and grew to over 300 square miles (780 km 2) [11] [12] and sent people fleeing for their lives.
The country experienced an unusually long fire season in 2023 that lasted into the autumn; these fires smouldered through the winter and about 150 re-ignited as early as February 2024. [2] [3] By early May, large wildfires had broken out in Alberta, British Columbia, and Manitoba.
BC Wildfire Service maps showed the fire burning just a few kilometers (miles) west of Fort Nelson’s city limits. Fort Nelson is located in the far northeastern corner of British Columbia, about ...
The current fire has grown to about 110 square kilometers (42.5 square miles) and remains out of control. ... The British Columbia Wildfire Service said the blaze had grown to 84 square kilometers ...
0 deaths, the fire burned for 30 days on the north of Vancouver Island directly outside the village of Sayward. The effort to extinguish the fire was the largest in British Columbia's history up to that point. It was British Columbia's largest recorded wildfire until it was surpassed in size by the Chelaslie River fire in 2014. [3]
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 ...
A human-caused fire at Nanaimo Lakes, discovered on July 1, reached 14.5 hectares by July 4. [6] A total of 2,115 wildfires burned 1,351,314 hectares (3,339,170 acres) of land in 2018 as of November 9. [9] As of August 28, initial estimates put 2018 as the largest burn-area in a British Columbia wildfire season, [1] surpassing the historic 2017 ...