By Wolfgang Depner A growing wildfire in British Columbia’s Fraser Canyon has forced further evacuation alerts and the closure of a stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway. The province’s transportation website, Drive BC, says the Brunswick Creek fire has forced the closure of Highway 1 between Boston Bar Station Road and Ainslie Road North. The closure comes after new figures from the BC Wildfire Service show that the fire burning near Boston Bar, B.C., has grown to 18 square kilometres as of Tuesday afternoon. The closure coincides with an evacuation alert from the Fraser Valley Regional District covering 48 properties north of Boston Bar, along both sides of the Fraser River. B.C.’s Ministry of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness says about 150 properties are now under evacuation order and about 255…
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