Keremeos Creek wildfire: Highway 3A still closed, cooler temperatures in forecast
The fire is sized at 6,836 hectares. 1,600 properties are still under either evacuation alerts or orders.On Monday, it was sized at 5,903 ha. The increase, says BC Wildfire Service , was due to planned ignitions during the last few days.
“We’re still mitigating some of those hazards and working as hard as we can to get that corridor open,” BCWS fire information officer Mikhail Elsay said of Highway 3A. Officials noted there is no timeline for when it will reopen.The BCWS said crews will be conducting planned burns along the backside of Olalla Creek Forest Service Road to help consolidate contingency lines.
Elsay said heavy equipment is being moved from location to location, “but the biggest impact right now are the fire engines. We have a lot of structure protection — water tenders, fire engines — moving in and out of some of the smaller streets.”According to the Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen , in Electoral Areas G and I, there are 547 properties on evacuation order, an unchanged number from the past few days.
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