Multiple wildfires burning in B.C.’s Shuswap region, officials say
Global News
According to data from the B.C. Wildfire Service, there are 70 active fires across the province, with 43 new fires in the last two days.
A dozen wildfires discovered on Friday after lightning rolled across the region are listed in B.C.’s Shuswap region.
“Most of these fires are suspected to be lightning-caused,” said B.C. Wildfire Service spokesperson Melanie Bibeau. “We have crews responding accordingly to all of these.”
Bibeau told Global News that most of the fires are considered spot-sized.
Four of the fires are located in a near-perfect line on the north side of Shuswap Lake, across from Sorrento and Blind Bay.
One fire (Hillman Road) is just west of Scotch Creek, not far from Shuswap Lake Provincial Park, with another (Geo Scotch Creek) six kilometres to the northeast, just above Squilax-Anglemont Road.
That second one was listed as being under control on Saturday morning.
Eleven kilometres to the northeast of that fire, and around eight kilometres north of Celista, are two fires (Onyx Creek South, and Onyx Creek North) that are less than a kilometre apart.