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Northwest BC Fire Smoke will keep temperatures below forecast. See Imagery and a note on Fire Climate.
So if you watched my live facebook or twitter feed this morning you’d already know that above the fog… which is still pretty prominent this morning. There is a thick layer of smoke. I’m tagging this post climate change because… well… ya, more on that at the end of the post. I thought yesterday that…
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Arbutus Ridge Updates 20Ha – No Yellow Creek Fire – Rain and possible Lightning mainly confined to East Coast
It was quite a night last night. The Arbutus Ridge fire glowed prominently over the city and provided quite a show. The picture below was taken through the binoculars at Harbour Quay. The fire has grown to 20 hectares and is now a Fire of Note on BCWS. The good news about that is we…
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Updating – New fire on Arbutus Ridge over Inlet – Weekend Forecast later
5:45PM Update – New Video – New Fire Status – New Lightning. On the fires: Here’s some more video from this afternoon. The longer clip is from 5:15PM this evening. The wind is obviously going to be giving the fire fighters troubles and it is also spreading smoke across the west and north sectors of…
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Refresh to see Updates – Third Fire in Two Days starts near Horne Lake – If you have info please get in touch – Also Turtle Lake Fire relit?
6:00PM – Final Update Beaufort holding. An update from the City of Port Alberni: The BC Wildfire Service crews and ACRD Fire Department staff, assisted by three helicopters and several pieces of heavy equipment, have been working throughout the day to create fire breaks around the Lacy Lake fire, specifically in the area that it…
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Updating again! Yet another fire overnight. This time in Cherry Creek. It may feel like 40 today!
7:00PM Final Update – no change in size. Appears to be under control. But new fire. See new post coming up. There is no update from BCWS on the Beaufort/Cherry Creek fire. It is still listed as 5Ha and New. However. Visually it seems to have been knocked down. Unfortunately. There is another fire. I…