The BC Wildfire Service says there were just 74 lightning strikes on Labour Day compared with thousands that peppered the province and sent fire numbers soaring in the last days of August. The number of wildfires has jumped in the last week from 70 to almost 170, with most of the out-of-control blazes burning in the southern Interior. In the B.C. Interior, the Cariboo Regional District and the Ulkatcho First Nation have jointly issued an evacuation order for 150 land parcels in the area of the Beef Trail Creek wildfire, some 350 kilometres west of Williams Lake. Residents have been told to evacuate immediately to Williams Lake to escape the lightning-triggered wildfire that is 2,771 hectares in size. The evacuation order covers almost 87,000 hectares of rural and sparsely populated…
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