BC Wildfire Service says 45 new fires have been recorded in the last two days, including one suspected lightning-caused blaze near Monte Lake
Severe thunderstorms have torn through British Columbia’s Interior, delivering hundreds of lightning strikes to areas already ranked at a high to extreme risk for wildfires.
The new fires remain small, but more lightning is in the forecast for areas of southern and southeastern B.C., such as Penticton, where a 67-square kilometre wildfire has forced evacuation orders and alerts. At the height of Thursday’s thunderstorms, Environment Canada says Kamloops recorded a wind gust of 82 kilometres per hour, while gusts in Merritt reached nearly 60 kilometres per hour and the city was drenched by more than 23 millimetres of rain, causing some localized flooding.
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