An evacuation alert has been rescinded for about two dozen properties near a stretch of Highway 3 in British Columbia’s Interior, where a vehicle fire appeared to have spread to nearby grasses and started burning up a mountainside.
Karley Desrosiers with the BC Wildfire Service said the fire started around 1 a.m. Friday, and while the service was aware that a truck had caught fire along the highway south of Cawston, the connection between the vehicle and the wildfire hadn’t been officially confirmed.
Helicopters were supporting 34 firefighters to get the blaze under control on the west side of Richter Mountain, she said, noting it was burning between the locations of two wildfires from previous seasons and slowing down as it reached rockier terrain….