Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth says wildfire crews are in for a challenging fight in the coming days as they battle some 263 wildfires across B-C, including 20 that are either highly visible or pose potential threats to public safety.
The entire cities of Merritt as well as Armstrong north of Vernon remain on evacuation alert due to different fires, with Armstrong threatened by the destructive White Rock Lake fire burning up western shoreline of Okanagan Lake.
Seventy-four evacuation orders covered over 66-hundred properties at the province’s last update, while 119 evacuation alerts directed residents of more than 16-thousand properties to be ready to leave on short notice.
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