On Sunday evening, a wildfire burning near Princeton, B.C., forced the evacuation of a music festival with about 500 people in attendance, the town's mayor says.
The B.C. Wildfire Service wrote in a social media post that it's responding to the Rice Road wildfire around 11 kilometres northwest of Princeton.
"Because of the location of the festival itself, there is only one access in, it's on a private property," said Coyne. Coyne says firefighters have told him they are hopeful they can contain the fire, adding that the town saw some rain last night after the festival was evacuated. The Thompson-Nicola Regional District says it expanded the evacuation alert to 85 addressed properties Monday, and also closed a boat launch to keep recreational boaters off the water to allow aircraft to work unimpeded as blazes burn on both sides of the lake.
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