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Other evacuation orders are still posted in another region west of Lillooet, where the Downton Lake fire destroyed numerous homes and cabins around Gun Lake.
The impacted homes are in the Gun Lake and Gun Creek areas north of Pemberton, where the Downtown Lake wildfire still burns out of control at a size of roughly 9,393 hectares.
Wildfire behaviour in British Columbia received a late-summer boost from higher than normal temperatures and lower than normal rainfall, especially in the north, and provincial officials say dry conditions are expected well into the fall.