BC Wildfire Service Services advanced during the weekend fighting a forest fire outside control north of Lytton, BC, along the 12 highway.
Izman Creek’s forest fire was accidentally caused on Canada’s day by an RCMP trailer that passed, and has resulted in three properties close to the road that receives evacuation orders and nine other properties that are being put on evacuation alert. Lytton, which is located in the Fraser Canyon area, is about 170 kilometers southwest of Kamloops.
The teams say that temperatures will increase in the next few days, and an incoming cold front could create suction conditions in the Canyon Fraser area.
It was estimated that the fire was around 245 hectares until Sunday, with the fire information officer Sarah Hall saying that a new size occurred after more precise evaluations were carried out during the weekend.
“He [increase] The size is not due to the increase in fire behavior and the growth of fire, even more due to the precise mapping of our perimeter of fire, “he told CBC News.
Hall said the teams were seeing burning fire conditions during the weekend, with lighter winds that allowed them to fight fire in front with the help of helicopters.
“But we are anticipating that a cold front to come on Tuesday,” he said. “So that is to bring higher wind speeds, approximately 50 to 60 kilometers [per hour] bursts “.
Highway 12 is only open to local traffic between Lytton and Lillooet, which is about 64 kilometers northwest, as a result of the fire.
Hall urge caution for anyone who drives through the area, since fire extinction staff will be visible.
“On the western flank, which is where the 12 highway is, the crews maintain its presence in that area to monitor the road during the night and during the day,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Regional District of Thompson-Nicola lifted an evacuation alert on Friday that had been in force for the properties threatened by Mount Wildfire, west of the city of Chase, BC, about 60 kilometers northeast of Kamloop.
An evacuation order of Neskonlith Indian Band for approximately 40 properties was reduced to an alert last week for the Mount Scatchard Blaze.
