By Ben Tompkins

BC Wildfire Update

Evacuation alerts in BC reach triple digits

Aug 4, 2021 | 11:13 AM

PRINCE GEORGE – Evacuation alerts across the province are now totalling 100, as wildfires continue to burn in B.C.

Evacuations:

Evacuation orders: 64 (-1)
Evacuation alerts: 100 (+1)
Properties:
- Number of properties on order: 4,296 (-324)
- Number of properties on alert: 20,994 (-48)
Orders and alerts by Emergency Management BC region:
- Vancouver Island Central Coast: 0 orders 0 alerts
- Northwest: 0 orders 1 alert
- Northeast: 1 order 14 (+1) alerts
- Central: 57 (-1) order 73 alerts
- Southeast: 6 orders 8 alerts
- Southwest: 0 orders 4 alerts

Fires

Wildfires currently burning in B.C.: 262
Since April 1, 2021:
- 1,336 wildfires
- 557,459 hectares of area burned
Active fires by fire centre:
- Cariboo: 50
- Coastal: 20
- Southeast: 57
- Prince George: 53
- Northwest: 7
- Kamloops: 75

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Resources

Personnel:

British Columbia: 2,737

794 BCWS firefighters
376 BCWS support/overhead staff
1,187 contract firefighters
380 support/overhead staff

Out of province: 568

415 firefighters
153 support/overhead
Aircraft (fixed and rotary)
- B.C.: 211
- Out of province: 0
Fireline heavy and mobile equipment: 565

by Ben Tompkins

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