BC Wildfire Service crews continue to action an out of control wildfire in the Martin Lake area in the Chilcotin.
Fire Information Officer Jeromy Corrigan said the fire is currently estimated at 1183 hectares in size.
“There are ground crews on site and are being assisted by both heavy equipment and skimmers. We did have heavy equipment overnight on this fire, more resources are expected to be mobilized over the course of the next few days.”
Corrigan noted that smoke will be visible for motorists travelling on Highway 20, that will continue for the foreseeable future, currently there are no impacts to the Highway but we do encourage the public to stay up to date by using DriveBC.
“As of this morning this fire was burning Rank 2, and Rank 2 fire behaviour is described as low vigorous surface fire. When it comes to the weather that crews will be dealing with today, temperatures are going to be around 23 to 25 degrees with winds gusting 25 to 30 kilometres an hour in the Chilcotin.”
For tomorrow Corrigan said temperatures will be a bit lower however they could see wind gusts to 30 to 40 kilometres an hour.
“We will be dealing with some heavy winds out West when it comes to this fire over the course of the next 48 hours,” Corrigan added.
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