Nearly 100 out of province wildfire specialists are due in BC today to help control numerous devastating blazes.
Teams from Ontario and New Brunswick will be checked for COVID-19 before being assigned to any of the almost 200 active fires that have charred large areas of the province.
Evacuation orders are posted for five of those blazes, including the one that destroyed most of the Village of Lytton last week, killing two people — but the wildfire service says that fire didn’t grow much over the weekend.
The non-profit agency that co-ordinates inter-provincial and federal aid for wildfires in this country predicts more fires will be sparked every day for the next three days as conditions remain hot and dry.
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