British Columbia’s wildfire service is working to create containment lines around an “aggressive” blaze that has already destroyed at least six homes.
Jeff Walsh, an incident commander with the BC Wildfire Service, says crews were using heavy equipment on the mountain slopes above Spences Bridge to prevent fire from burning downslope toward the southern Interior community.
The homes lost were in the Venables Valley, near Spences Bridge, and Colton Davies with the Thompson-Nicola Regional District says they were among 20 buildings destroyed by the nearly 200-square-kilometre Shetland Creek fire.
Several communities are in the path of wildfires in B.C. as crews fight the most threatening of 430 active blazes, 80 per cent of which have been started by some of the thousands of lightning strikes that have swept over B.C. in the last few days.
Walsh says in a video update that hot and dry conditions coupled with gusty winds …