Crews continue to work hard on the Kiskatinaw River wildfire, 58km south of Dawson Creek.
While conditions have stabilized on the 26,372 hectare blaze, warm and dry weather is expected to return, which could re-ignite activity.
Incident Commander, Stefan Hood says they are working to extinguish hot spots within 100 feet of the fire’s edge.
“That will show us the spots we are going to need to focus on. We have about 140 crew working on this fire right now and the challenges they are facing are the ongoing drought in the area, which has impacted the root systems to the trees.”
“We have not just danger trees but also deep burning and un burned fuel in areas between the body of the fire and the guard that we built, it takes a lot of time for crews to get into those areas.”
Hood mentioned the blaze will likely be a long term project.
“They (fire crews) will be here for the next two to three weeks and once we feel we have achievement that containment objective, we will have people here working in conjunction with the Dawson Creek zone. They will be patrolling this fire for sometime to come.”
An area restriction order remains in place and the blaze continues to be held.
144 firefighting personnel have been assigned along with 3 helicopters and 14 pieces of heavy equipment.
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