Another B.C. community warned to prepare for evacuation due to encroaching wildfires

VANCOUVER — A third British Columbia community is under threat from out-of-control wildfires, with the entire village of Clinton in the southern Interior under evacuation alert.

The area surrounding the community of several hundred residents is also under a series of evacuation orders and alerts that were expanded or imposed late Wednesday due to the 108-square-kilometre Fiftynine Creek fire.

The entire city of Kimberley in southeast B.C. with a population of more than 8,000 remains under evacuation alert due to a nearby complex of fires, while authorities have urged any holdout residents in Boston Bar to flee from nearby fires that surround the Fraser Canyon community.

Those blazes are among more than 80 wildfires burning across the province, with the BC Wildfire Service warning that heat and limited precipitation is expected throughout this week, which elevates the potential for new fire starts.