A wildfire burning near homes in British Columbia’s southern Interior has prompted the first evacuation alert of B.C.’s barely three-week-old wildfire season.
The Thompson-Nicola Regional District issued the alert for the small community of Canford and for homes in a subdivision about 12 kilometres northwest of Merritt.
The B.C. Wildfire Service says the suspected human-caused blaze was fanned by winds after being sparked on Sunday and now covers about one square kilometre.
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It is one of about a dozen wildfires
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