With a perimeter of more than 900 km, the fire is burning across a remote area about 160 km north of Fort St. John, where the forests and vegetation are thick and numerous roads are only available in the winter, incident commander Mike Healey says.
The service is using controlled burns to steer the fire toward rivers, lakes, areas that have burned in previous years, or patches of deciduous trees that are less flammable than the conifers prevalent throughout the boreal forest, Healey says.
Around homes, communications towers and other infrastructure, including gas-industry operations, Healey says, “that’s where we’re actively fighting the fire.” The service says it expects the Donnie Creek blaze will burn into the fall, before possible extinguishment in winter. It could also continue smouldering, only to re-emerge next spring.
The Donnie Creek blaze accounts for more than 60 per cent of nearly 8,700 square kilometres of land charred by wildfires in B.C. since April 1. That dwarfs the 20-year average of about 162 square kilometres for the same time of year.
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