Two wildfires in B.C.’s Central Interior have prompted evacuation alerts for residents of the province’s Cariboo region.
The B.C. Wildfire Service says the Dripping Water wildfire, originally discovered Thursday afternoon, is the bigger of the two fires, and has grown to 209 hectares, or 2.09 square kilometres.
Evacuation alerts have been issued by both the Tl’etinqox First Nation government and by the Cariboo Regional District for the area around the fire, about 600 kilometres north of Vancouver.
Joe Alphonse, chief of the Tl’etinqox First Nation, told CBC News that the community has been “knee-deep” fighting the blaze for three days.
“I think we got a pretty good look on the fire,”
