Many towns and villages and two cities are evacuated.
Highways have been bumper to bumper with vehicles evacuating bad area.
Military and civilians are going flat out fighting the fires. Sometimes thunderstorms start fires all over the country.

Worst wildfire season in 60 years and it is only half over now. All told so far over 40,000 people evacuated from central BC and over 200 structures - half of them homes - lost.

So far we have burnt up an area larger than the entire province of Prince Edward Island.

Also, as of last weekend we are now at 928 wildfires in British Columbia for the year.

How sad. We have been smoked in the entire State of Washington for a week and a half!!!They are predicting it might clear up here by the end of the week. The smoke even affected the Drag Races in Seattle!!!

Sometimes the old girls get the job done.

~1960 Lockheed L-188 Electra laying down a control line near Cache Creek a couple of weeks ago.

RCMP officer rounding up a stray donkey near the 150 Mile House fire. Yes he was using crime scene tape as a rope.

This is what happens to your pickup when you get caught looting from your neighbors during an evacuation order.....

Our prime minister ........

Yes lots of smoke still rolling into Washington. But nothing compared to what our neighbors to the north are dealing with.

Be safe up there!

WE have had extreme fire seasons in the past and will again. The REAL issue is severe "cutbacks" causing underfunding of the BC Forest Service and in Alberta, the AFS.

I fought my first fire at 14, spent years in detection and suppression in the BCFS, from spring, 1965 and in the AFS as well as professional private firms.

Very simply, people DEMAND funding for bullshit, forget the fires after the season and governments take advantage of this to buy votes from certain groups rather than fund resource management agencies as they should be. Same with the RCMP and the Canadian Coast Guard, but, by Lenin, the new BC government is re-establishing the totalitarian Human Rights Commission, with our tax monies...........

Kamloops and west got some rain. Wind blew fires north to PG.

Just back from the Ya Ha Tinda, which is in west central Alberta. Like perpetual twilight there, can't seem more than a couple of km. You can actually see the smoke drifting by. Was talk of closing the Forestry here, but hasn't happened yet. Lot of helicopter and plane traffic. Just heard there's a wildfire west of Rockymountain House, explains a lot.


Grizz