Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth and members of the B-C Wildfire Service, Emergency Management B-C and R-C-M-P are giving an update on the wildfire situation across the province in a briefing this afternoon.
Nearly 300 wildfires are currently burning and about 85-hundred square kilometres of land has been lost since that start of the wildfire season in April.
Cooler weather and calmer winds are helping nearly four-thousand firefighters and other personnel battle the flames — and the weather office shows most areas of the southern Interior have a chance of showers through the weekend — although there is also a risk of lightning.
The wildfire risk that dropped to low for much of southern B-C after rain last week, has now climbed to moderate in the Kamloops Fire Centre, while conditions are ranked at high or extreme on most of Vancouver Island and through the Cariboo.
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