VANCOUVER — About 80 campers have been evacuated from Cathedral Provincial Park in southern British Columbia after being trapped overnight by a nearby wildfire.
Dale Bojahra, a co-ordination officer with the BC Wildfire Service, told a news conference Wednesday that an increase in wind speed a day earlier triggered a "dramatic increase in fire behaviour" by the Casper Creek wildfire and the nearby Gillanders Creek blaze.
Brittany Seibert, an emergency program co-ordinator with the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, told the conference that a route out of the park was cleared by wildfire service staff Wednesday and a convoy carrying the campers left around 1 p.m. Wildfire crews across B.C. are bracing for a cold front from the northwest due Thursday that will meet a ridge of high-pressure air currently sitting over B.C., which has caused record-breaking temperatures and dry winds. The BC Wildfire Service has said this will create even stronger winds, dry lightning and a greater potential for new fire starts.
In Keremeos, Bojahra said crews are preparing for what that could mean for the rapidly growing Crater Creek fire. Erick Thompson, an information officer with the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, previously said the Crater Creek fire had forced evacuation orders for 13 properties along the Ashnola River and in the Snowy Protected Area of Cathedral Provincial Park, as well as Cathedral Lakes Lodge.
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