VANCOUVER — An airborne assessment was underway for a wildfire in southern British Columbia that has grown aggressively, trapping dozens of campers in a park southwest of Keremeos.
Erick Thompson, an information officer with the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, says about 80 people are trapped in Cathedral Provincial Park as the Crater Creek blaze is burning near the only road into the area.
An evacuation order was issued as the Casper Creek wildfire and the nearby Gillanders Creek blaze, which covered a combined 11 square kilometres early Tuesday, grew to what the wildfire service estimates is now 100 square kilometres. Thompson said the Crater Creek fire had forced evacuation orders for 13 properties along the Ashnola River and in the Snowy Protected area of Cathedral Provincial Park, as well as Cathedral Lakes Lodge.
Thompson said those who are sheltering in place include staff and guests from Cathedral Lakes Lodge, plus campers close to the lodge and as many as 20 more campers who self-evacuated from a recreational campsite on Buckhorn Creek after midnight.
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