Mayor says it’s not safe for Fort Nelson wildfire evacuees to return early

People trying to get back early could create highway lineups that hinder health-care workers: mayor

Residents of the northeast British Columbia municipality where thousands of people have been forced to leave due to wildfires are being warned against trying to return home early.

“As we’re exercising our plan, if people jump the gun and come early and they have no permit, they will not be allowed through the checkpoint.” Fraser told a community update earlier Friday in Taylor, B.C., 400 kilometres south of Fort Nelson, that water, sewer, electricity and police services have all largely been restored.

“I want you all to be home,” he said to the evacuees. “I want our businesses to be up and running … and I want to see our economy going. And so as soon as I get the word that all the boxes have been ticked with respect to health and safety, with respect to medical care, then we’ll lift that order.” Hugh Murdoch, the wildfire service’s Fort Nelson incident commander, told evacuees Friday that fire behaviour was “dramatically different” in recent days when compared with what forced the evacuations two weeks ago.

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