Forest fires were shot from the sky all over the region late last week and during the long weekend.
While B.C.'s largest fire burns near the Yukon border - 8,000 hectares - causing the closure of Highway 37 but causing no serious threat to lives or property, many more concerning blazes burn just to the west and the south of Prince George. Wildfires line the torso of the province like burning indigestion, the bulk of B.C.'s 393 fires centralized in the Cariboo and Kamloops regions.
Of greatest concern for this area are the series of lightning-caused blazes in the vicinity of Francois Lake and Ootsa Lake. Smoke from these, and from the Cariboo fires, can easily blow into this airshed and the stress on firefighting resources is already being felt.
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