Most of the rain that eased the situation in the Peace will skirt the area south of Fort Nelson, where the Donnie Creek wildfire, the second largest in B.C. history, continues to burn.
The Kamloops and Cariboo fire centres say the Category 1 open fire ban will lift at noon Friday, covering blazes no larger than 1.5-metres high by 1.5-metres wide.
The change comes as the wildfire danger rating in B.C. falls to moderate, low or very low across much of the central and southern Interior. Several fires are burning out of control in those areas, including the nearly 5,100-square-kilometre Donnie Creek wildfire south of Fort Nelson that has forced an evacuation alert along a section of the Alaska Highway, and remains out of control.
But a statement from the wildfire service said most of the rain that eased the situation there will skirt the area south of Fort Nelson.
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