Cooler weather could offer respite to crews battling wildfire near Penticton, B.C.

The Penticton area is slightly cooler and is expected to remain that way for the next several days, giving crews a chance to work on containment lines

A wildfire burning in British Columbia’s southern Okanagan now covers nearly 28 square kilometres after hot weather fuelled explosive growth since it was sparked Friday.

The wildfire and a 31-square-kilometre blaze in the Fraser Canyon west of Lytton are the only two ranked by the wildfire service as “fires of note,” but the Thompson-Nicola Regional District has posted an evacuation alert for a handful of homes near a fire north of Kamloops. The wildfire service website shows 84 active fires are burning in B.C., 38 of them sparked in the last two days, with the majority suspected to have been caused by lightning.

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