The Labour Day long weekend was an active one in the province for the B.C. Wildfire Service.
According to the Wildfire Service, nearly 6,000 lightning strikes were recorded over the weekend, resulting in 119 new wildfires.
While there was some new activity in the Prince George Fire Centre, Fire Information Officer Pedro Roldan-Delgado said the region was one of the regions that didn’t see as much activity.
“With the prolonged warm and dry weather, it has significantly increased the fire weather indices throughout the Fire Centre,” he said.
“We did have daytime high temperatures get up to ten to 15 degrees above seasonal, as well as with the dry and warm weather conditions, fire activity was active overnight as well.”
Roldan-Delgado said there were eight new starts over the long weekend.
“Three of the eight are now out, four are under control, and one is still out of control,” he said.
He noted the new start that is out of control, G31181, is only at a hundredth of a hectare in size.
“It looks like it’s just in inaccessible terrain, so at this moment, due to safety, we’re just keeping notes on it, making sure that it doesn’t get too much bigger,” he explained.
“At this time there’s just no safe, accessible route to get to it.”
While there are currently no wildfires of note in the province, Roldan-Delgado added there are two wildfires in the southern part of the VanJam zone
This includes the Tsetzi Lake Wildfire, which is an estimated 1,500 hectares in size, and is about 115 kilometres south of Fraser Lake.
The fire prompted an evacuation order by the Cariboo Regional District.
The other is the Tsacha Kale Fire in the same area, around 110 kilometres south of Fraser Lake, and is 1,534.4 hectares.
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