Little Bobtail Lake Fire Continues to Burn
Column of thick black smoke billows from fire -photo Bill Dobbs
Prince George, B.C.-It started on Saturday, and has grown to more than 2,500 hectares.
Labelled the “Little Bobtail Lake” fire, it is about 10 km south of Norman Lake and continues to burn despite the work of more than two dozen firefighters and heavy equipment operators.
Fanned by warm winds and pleasant temperatures, the fire, has prompted an evacuation order (see previous story here).
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
As of late yesterday, there were two helicopters dumping water on the blaze, air tankers had provided support on Saturday. There are 26 firefighters, 5 pieces of heavy equipment, an incident commander along with three support personnel all on scene.
Smoke from this fire continues to drift into Prince George, and is very visible from Highway 16 West.
An update on the fire is expected later this morning.
Two logging contracting teams working in the area were trying desperately last night to get about a dozen pieces of equipment out if the area.
Comments
BC Forest Fire site is now saying the fire is only 3 km south of Norman Lake and folks are being evacuated from this lake and the bobtail lake area. It’s getting serious! Sadly like most of the lakes, Norman Lake has plenty of dead trees to feed this fire. Love this lake, hope the cabins/homes can be saved….
CBC reported this morning that the fire was likely human caused, sad.
Don’t flick your butts out the window people and put out your fires – I see people tossing butts into bark mulch and planters all the time around town without thinking. The Barriere fire by Kamloops was started in the back yard of a home years back, think it was a volunteer firefighter too if I remember correctly.
It wasn’t in a backyard, it was up the mountain and ignited by a discarded lit smoke.
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