Category: Fire
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Four small fires start Wednesday on VI – Taylor Flats Under Control – Fire Danger High or Extreme
A quick update. Please folks, be careful out there. #portalberni #nanaimo #campbellriver #sooke
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No Official Change at Taylor Flats Fire (Now Updated) – Cooler Weather until Friday
2PM Monday Update The BC Wildfire Service has updated the fire on their dashboard. It is now listed as 1.82 hectares (4.5 acres). No further updates are publicly available at this time. Monitor the Peak and AVNews as they may have more direct information. Original Post I was hoping the BC Wildfire Service would have…
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Wildfire at Taylor Flats on Sproat Lake
Update 8:30PM There have not been any more updates to the status on the BC Wildfire website. Here are a couple more pictures from earlier today from Stephanie Morrison. Update 3:45PM Here’s a video from 3:30PM this afternoon, from DrJSproatLake1 Here’s a great video from 2:30PM here from Kryssie Thomson of the helicopter working on…
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Wildfire Rating moves to Extreme
Moving up. As forecast, BC Wildfire moved their danger rating to Extreme for the Beaver Creek (Alberni Airport) region which you can see below in this afternoon’s map. Most of the South Island and South Coast west of the mountains is under high or extreme conditions while the north island remains at low and moderate.…
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Rain relief coming! Risk of thunderstorms Thursday and Friday.
Good news! The models shifted a bit and now there is at least a little bit of moisture expected on Wednesday! The models are showing rain sweeping onto the Island Wednesday morning. It’s not huge and it’s mostly on the North Island, but it’s there! The precipitation reaches Port Alberni and central VI later Wednesday…