Wildfires

View from our house

Williams Lake is surrounded by fires.  Residents in the rural areas around town have been evacuated, and there is an evacuation alert for those living on the south lakeside, but none for those of us in town.

For a while roads were closed in all directions, but now Highway 20 West is open, Hwy 97 down to 100 Mile House (you can get to Kamloops via the Little Fort Road), and north to Prince George.

This morning there are new evacuation orders/alerts for Alexis Creek west to the Fraser River.

Nothing but hot dry weather forecast for the foreseeable future. Possible lightning/showers this afternoon though none developed locally yesterday.

It's hot and smoky in town, and we can't open our windows to let the cool air in at night because of the air quality.

Though we haven't had an evacuation alert, we have been packing our trailer up so we can leave quickly should we have to.  But so far the fires are moving away from town.

We drove south to 150 Mile House last night for a look see.  The fire has mostly stayed to the north of the highway, though it's jumped the highway from the Sugar Cane Reserve to the 150.  Most houses have survived, but it looks like one house on the reserve has burnt down.