The annual cost of fighting wildfires in BC this year has passed $200 million.
A large portion of that spending is happening in the Prince George area with the regional total near $56 million.
Fire Info Officer Jill Kelsh says it’s a case of larger fires, this year.
“We normally see around 400 forest fires, per year,” Kelsh says. “This year, we’re actually quite on-average for number of forest fires, basically this year, we’ve just burned a lot more ground. So we’re at quite a bit above average for hectares burned.”
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Recently, the PG region has seen five to six new fire starts a day.
