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I m happy to report that it has been relatively quiet this morning in the emergency operations centre, meaning that it hasn t been necessary to expand orders and alerts, Sell said Monday.
The break has been a relief, but of course staff know it can easily ramp up again, she said. It kind of goes in fits and starts, as the fires tick off then of course we need to get people out of harm s way as quickly as possible.
The centre is managing an area that includes Lytton, B.C., which was razed by a wildfire last week after three days of record-setting heat, as well as four other major wildfires still considered out of control. It s one of several co-ordinating bodies stickhandling the response to what is shaping up to be another active wildfire season in British Columbia.
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Debbie Sell, information officer for the Thompson-Nicola Regional District’s emergency operations centre, said evacuation alerts and orders remained generally static, indicating the fires hadn’t moved closer to residential areas.
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“I’m happy to report that it has been relatively quiet this morning in the emergency operations centre, meaning that it hasn’t been necessary to expand orders and alerts,” Sell said Monday.
The break has been a relief, but of course it could easily ramp up again, she said.
VANCOUVER A group of wildfire fighters who were supposed to arrive in B.C. on Monday were delayed due to mechanical issues, according to a statement from the BC Wildfire Service. Their flight had been scheduled to land at the Abbotsford International Airport on July 5, but has been rescheduled to Tuesday, July 6. Earlier in the day, Jean Strong, information officer for BC Wildfire Service, told CTV News Vancouver that they were expecting 92 firefighters, 47 of whom are from New Brunswick and 45 of whom are from Quebec. The news of the delay comes amid more wildfire evacuation alerts and orders issued Monday, including one in the Canim Lake area, and as 198 wildfires burn in the province, 46 of which started in the past two days.
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