BRITISH COLUMBIA — The agency monitoring wildfires in British Columbia said eight new blazes sprang up in the southern regions of the area served by the Northwest Fire Centre, after more than 400 lightning strikes hit the area on Friday night.
The BC Wildfire service said four of the new fires are burning west of the Witset community, which is home to about 611 on-reserve members.
The wildfire service website showed there were six blazes of note in B.C., including the Hullcar Mountain wildfire that was burning approximately 13 kilometres northwest of Armstrong and is roughly 7.1 square kilometres in size. MacLeod said crews finished building control lines around the north side of the fire on Friday and about 70 firefighters were responding to the Hullcar Mountain wildfire over the weekend with crews working 24 hours a day to ensure the control lines were holding.
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