VANCOUVER — About 80 campers have been evacuated from Cathedral Provincial Park in southern British Columbia after being trapped overnight by a nearby wildfire.
Dale Bojahra, a co-ordination officer with the BC Wildfire Service, says an increase in wind speed yesterday triggered a"dramatic increase in fire behaviour" by the Casper Creek wildfire and the nearby Gillanders Creek blaze.
Brittany Seibert, an emergency program co-ordinator with the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, says a route out of the park was cleared by wildfire service staff and a convoy carrying the campers left around 1 p.m. A separate fire, west of Lillooet, also grew more threatening on Tuesday, prompting renewed evacuation orders and alerts for the communities of Shalath and Seton Portage, along Seton and Anderson Lakes.
He also confirmed residents in 74 other properties along the Similkameen River west of Keremeos were told to be ready to leave on short notice."There was an evacuation alert put in place at approximately 5 p.m., under the advice of the BC Wildfire Service," Thompson said."From there until there was an evacuation order put in place at 10:15 p.m., certainly conditions changed."
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