WATCH:
Day turned into night for PG on Friday, with the skies displaying what could be a scene out of a Hollywood movie.
Between 5AM & 10AM, darkness covered the Northern capital, thanks to strong winds blowing smoke from wildfires in the Bulkley-Nechako.
“Let’s not give all the credit to the Shovel Lake wildfire. It’s essentially from all the fires out west; Fort St. James, the Island Lake fire and Purvis. We are just in a bit of a Southwest wind flow right now.”
– Fire Information Officer Amanda Reynolds
Shovel Lake has grown to nearly 80,000 hectares in size, and smoke is expected to last the weekend.
For more evacuee information, you can click here.
For more information on all the current wildfires in the Northwest and Prince George Fire Centres, you can click here.
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