State Of Emergency Extended Over B.C. Wildfires As Windy Weather Expected

The Canadian Press, 18 Aug, 2017 02:04 PM

B.C.'s provincial state of emergency due to wildfires has been extended for the third time.

The Ministry of Public Safety says the state of emergency will continue at least until Sept. 1.

Extending the emergency declaration means federal, provincial and local resources can be delivered in a co-ordinated response to the 138 wildfires that are currently burning in the central and southern Interior.

About 4,400 people have been forced from their homes by fires that have scorched about 9,000 square kilometres of B.C.'s timber, bush and grasslands.

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