A water bomber flies over Mackenzie Avenue in Williams Lake, B.C., as a wildfire burns in the city Sunday.
More than 300 wildfires are burning across B.C. after a volatile weekend that saw hundreds of people told to leave their homes.
On Sunday, the historic gold mining town of Barkerville — the centre of the Cariboo Gold Rush of the 1860s, which helped shape the province of British Columbia — was ordered evacuated due to the threat of the rapidly growing That same fire also forced the evacuation of the Bowron Lake provincial park canoe circuit and the artistic enclave of Wells, impacting up to 1,000 residents, tourists and temporary workers, according to Mayor Ed Coleman.
Farther south, the city of Williams Lake, B.C., home to more than 10,000 people, ordered a local state of emergency Sunday night after a fire broke out along Mackenzie Avenue, which is a strip of businesses and industry. The city's emergency operations centre said the fire was sparked after a tree fell on power lines.
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