Officials have expanded evacuation orders related to British Columbia’s largest wildfire.
On Saturday, the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District expanded an evacuation order for an area south of the Pear Lake wildfire fire to cover properties near Highway 99 in the Marble Canyon area.
The Thompson-Nicola Regional District also expanded an evacuation order along Highway 99, west of the Highway 97 junction.
The expanded orders from both regional districts now cover nearly 200 properties in total.
Additionally, the Ts’kw’aylaxw First Nation has issued evacuation orders covering several of its reserves.
Hundreds of B.C. wildfire evacuees given the go-ahead to return home
All three governments have also expanded evacuation alerts.
The Pear Lake wildfire has burned more than 1,647 square kilometres, according to the B.C. Wildfire Service, and is responsible for destroying structures on more than 120 properties, mostly in the area around Clinton.
The fire is currently most active on its western and southern boundaries.
As of Saturday afternoon, there were nearly 130 active wildfires across B.C., 45 of them classified as out of control.
On Friday, the B.C. government extended a provincial state of emergency related to wildfires until at least Aug. 29.
