Prince George, B.C.-  The Little Bobtail Lake fire is now 65% contained.Crews are still working on establishing full containment of the Little Bobtail Lake wildfire but  increased  containment from 45% to 65%.

Crews conducted burn off operations on the eastern flank of the fire to burn leftover fuel between the fire’s edge and established guard. This removes fuel from the fire’s path and ensures that the wildfire has less chance of reaching, and breaching, the fire guard in place.

Now that guards have been established on several areas of the fire, crews are conducting mop-up along 50 feet of the fire’s perimeter, applying water to any remaining areas of open flame and digging up hot spots.

Crews continued to see rank 3 fire behaviour today. This is a vigorous surface fire with a moderate rate of spread. This type of fire behaviour may display “candling,” which is when a tree’s fuels ignite and flare up, along the perimeter and/or within the fire.

There are still 330 fire suppression  workers  working this fire,  and   once again the Wildfire Management  Branch asks people to  obey the  evacuation alerts and  orders in order to  keep  roads in an out of the area clear for  the  access and egress of  fire crews and equipment.