Shifting winds, cooler temperatures helping firefighters at Tumbler Ridge
Firefighters took advantage of favourable weather conditions Saturday to make headway on an out-of-control wildfire that forced the evacuation of the northeast British Columbia community of Tumbler Ridge.
The estimated 2,400 residents of Tumbler Ridge were ordered to evacuate earlier this week as the intense, out-of-control West Kiskatinaw River wildfire approached within five kilometres of the community. “There’s still real potential for some more aggressive fire behaviour over the next couple of days,” Tower said. “It’s still a large, large wildfire and there’s lots of work that needs to be done.”“It’s still active and it’s still definitely burning, but just at a much lower intensity than it has been and it isn’t really threatening the containment lines that we have,” Tower said.
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