2 wildfire evacuation orders and 3 alerts issued Saturday in Cariboo Regional District
NEWS -- Two evacuation orders in the Cariboo Regional District, issued Saturday, meant that residents of 1,132 land parcels had to leave. The orders affected Deka Lake and Judson Road. “Additional equipment and personnel are now arriving in the region to assist first responders battling the 48 active wildfires in the Cariboo Fire Centre,” reads a statement from the Cariboo district. While not all of the land parcels have people living on them, officials say that more than 200 people have checked in at the region’s designated evacuation centres. “Evacuees from both orders are ...
Source: bc.ctvnews.ca