WILLIAMS LAKE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — Residents of Williams Lake, B.C.
, got a front-row look at the wildfire fight to save their community, with water bombers swooping low and dropping red fire retardant, crews spraying structure fires from ladders and RCMP evacuating residents.
"Everybody was panicked, understandable because the fire was less than a road across from us," he said.The River Valley fire, which the BC Wildfire Service said had grown to 40 hectares in size by Monday, is one of more than 330 blazes burning in B.C., with clusters along B.C.'s boundary with Alberta as well as in the central Interior.
WL Forestry Supplies said in a Facebook post that the MacKenzie Avenue store had been saved thanks to the efforts of fire crews. “There are some small spot fires, but I will say that there are very many groundcrews and equipment fighting what is left of this fire,” he said in a Facebook post around midnight Sunday.
But other residents weren't so certain. Stephanie Symons said Monday that she had been getting messages and calls from friends"wondering what to do and if it's time to pack up and go." Warnock said in a video posted to the city's website last night that those homes remain subject to an evacuation alert, meaning residents must be ready to leave again quickly.
“It's an incredibly stressful time for a lot of British Columbians. We've got hundreds of people on evacuation order. We've got thousands on notice that they may need to evacuate their homes. And this is unfortunately, the beginning of the fire season that we were concerned about,” Eby said during an unrelated news conference.
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