VANCOUVER — A new out-of-control wildfire in British Columbia's Interior sparked a mandatory evacuation order and forced firefighters to carry out a tactical evacuation on one property over the weekend.
A spokeswoman with the Cariboo Fire Centre says all residents near the Tzenzaicut Lake wildfire are under an evacuation order after the blaze was discovered in the area located approximately 600 kilometres north of Vancouver on Saturday afternoon.
An area surrounding the evacuation area, located south of the community of Baker Creek, has also been placed on alert as the Tzenzaicut fire doubled to one square kilometre in size by Sunday morning. In the Cariboo, the Pelican Lake wildfire that's raging 300 kilometres west of Tzenzaicut Lake has been upgraded to a"wildfire of note."
"Now that we've really secured that line along the highway, we can put some more of our crews up in the north area ," said spokesperson Forrest Tower about the Stoddart Creek fire, which is now covering 266 square metres.
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