The West Kiskatinaw River wildfire burning in northern B.C. is pushing closer to the evacuated town of Tumbler Ridge.
Forrest Tower, an information officer with the B.C. Wildfire Service, said Friday morning the blaze is four to five kilometres away from Highway 52, which runs through Tumbler Ridge.
Meanwhile, the District of Tumbler Ridge is reporting the fire as being “about three kilometres away” from the townsite.
“We continue to see pretty extreme fire behaviour pretty much every day since this fire has started,” Tower told CBC. “We’re expecting it to remain very aggressive starting pretty early this morning, expecting torching, candling. So
