BC is in the midst of its worst-ever fire year and drought season, and an incoming heatwave is not expected to make matters any better.
Temperatures are set to rise across the province this week, with some places like Kamloops exceeding 40 degrees.
The Prince George area is expected to hit around 30 degrees on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Fire Information Officer Rachelle Legault said “as with any heatwave, we see drying and warming trends, and we have some anticipated winds that could be picking up and increasing fire potential.”
“We are always on high alert,” she said. “We don’t have a crystal ball, our weather changes from day-to-day. If it calls for rain, we get it or we don’t.”
There are currently 133 fires burning in the Prince George Fire Centre, two of which are of note, both west of Vanderhoof.
Rain and cooler temperatures had come over BC for the last couple of weeks, Legault said around 50 fires were extinguished in the Prince George Fire Centre in the last week.
For the first time since very early in the summer, the fire ban in northern BC has been lifted and campfires are once again allowed.
Category 2 and 3 burns are still banned, so a fire can only be half a meter tall, wide, and long.
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