Fire Now 52 Hundred Hectares in Size

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Prince George, B.C.- The Greer Creek fire southwest of Vanderhoof is now 52 square kilometres in size.

This is the top priority fire in the province right now. The fire was first detected Friday, but windy conditions in an area of grey standing beetle kill trees, have made for a very aggressive blaze.

There are more than 100 people working on this fire right now, as well as 54 pieces of heavy equipment,. There are 6 choppers and two air tankers dropping fire retardant on the blaze.

Heavy equipment worked overnight to build a 1 km fuel-free fire guard.

An Incident Management Team arrived today to direct fire suppression operations and structural protection units are in the area assessing homes in the evacuation alert area.

The area under evacuation alert is from the 18.5 km mark of Kenny Dam Road south to Greer Creek, including Corkscrew Road, Edwards Road, York Drive, Surprise Drive and Szanz Drive, Greer Valley Road, Brophy Road, and the Kluskus Forest Service Road.

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