By Ben Tompkins

BC Wildfire Update

Wildfire totals up 51 this week

Aug 13, 2021 | 10:10 AM

PRINCE GEORGE – Although up North, the wildfire totals have remained quite steady as our region has seen some moisture, the same can’t exactly be said for the rest of the province.

Below is the list of wildfire, evacuation alert and evacuation order totals, as of today.

Fires:

Since April 1, 2021:
- 1,488 wildfires
- 660,071 hectares of area burned
Wildfires burning in B.C.: 269
Active fires by fire centre:
- Cariboo: 33
- Coastal: 25
- Kamloops: 86
- Northwest: 4
- Prince George: 61
- Southeast: 60

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Resources:

Total personnel: 3,793
Contract firefighters: 1,214
Out-of-province personnel: 411
Aircraft (rotary and fixed-wing): 205

Evacuations:

Evacuation orders: 56 (+1)
Evacuation alerts: 108 (+3)
Properties:
- Number of properties on order: 6,237 (+1,645)
- Number of properties on alert: 27,417 (-1,753)
Orders and alerts by Emergency Management BC region:
- Vancouver Island Central Coast: 1 order, 0 alerts
- Northwest: 0 orders, 0 alerts
- Northeast: 1 order, 6 (-1) alerts
- Central: 49 (+2) orders, 88 (+2) alerts
- Southeast: 2 orders, 9 alerts
- Southwest: 3 (-1) orders, 5 (+2) alerts

by Ben Tompkins

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