5 out-of-control wildfires in northwest B.C. being managed by fire crews
The North West Fire Centre is managing five out-of-control wildfires in remote areas of the Cassiar Fire Zone, after it successfully put out 24 of the 37 blazes that ignited in the region this month.
The fire service can draw from provincial and federal resources if the situation gets worse, he said. A challenge is poor visibility from the recent rainfall, Caddy said. Poor visibility makes it unsafe for on-the-ground crews to use aircrafts for rescue missions and other tasks. The fire service will re-assess if suppressing the out of control fires is possible, he said.
“They are all left in a very safe state. There is no risk of them spreading in a meaningful way, but we left them as ‘out of control’ because they did not meet the criteria for us to put them into another status, basically.”
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