Crews have overcome a week of hot, dry conditions to make progress on a wildfire burning south of Nanaimo.
But they warn the fight against the 179-hectare Nanaimo Lakes fire that has been threatening several dozen homes on Vancouver Island could take weeks.
“We are definitely not going to pull resources off until we have containment on this fire and we feel that it’s not going to challenge or threaten any properties around it,” said Dimitri Vaisius of the B.C. Wildfire Service.
“There will be a presence on this fire for weeks certainly.”
Nanaimo Lakes Fire started on Aug. 5 and
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