The District of 100 Mile House in the Cariboo region has been placed under an evacuation alert due to wildfires raging in the area.
Residents of about one-thousand properties south of 100 Mile House and 482 properties in the Canim Lake area have been told they need to get out.
They have been warned that the wildfires pose an “immediate danger.”
More than 300 fires are burning across the province and they have also forced closures of major highways, including Highway 97 north of 70 Mile House and Highway 20 in the Anahim Lake region.
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