Teare Creek fire nearly doubles in size into Saturday night
The Teare Creek wildfire near McBride southeast of Prince George has reported a dramatic increase in size. Over Friday, the blaze grew from 11, to 600 hectares. By saturday evening the fire had been reported as being 1,100 hectares in size.
The fire was backdropped by scenes of the northern lights going into saturday night.
The fire remains under the ‘out of control’ classification, and is considered a ‘fire of note.’