The BC Wildfire Service is deploying additional resources to suppress the Mehan Lake Fire (R51309), burning about 75 kilometres north of Meziadin Junction and four kilometres south of Bell II along Highway 37.

The BC Wildfire Service is responding to a wildfire burning near Highway 37, about 75 kilometres north of Meziadin Junction and four kilometres south of Bell II.

Category 2 open burning will be allowed again throughout the Cariboo Fire Centre’s jurisdiction, effective at noon on June 26, 2019.

Government is implementing an interim moratorium on new resource development in parts of northeastern British Columbia, while providing more time to protect jobs and support workers as it engages with affected communities and industries on long-term caribou protection strategies.

Effective at noon on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, Category 2 and Category 3 open fires, as well as some other activities and the use of certain equipment, will be restricted throughout the Kamloops Fire Centre to help prevent human-caused wildfires.

The BC Wildfire Service is sending additional personnel to Alberta to help respond to an increasingly challenging wildfire situation.

Surrey residents are advised that the final aerial spraying treatment to eradicate invasive gypsy moths from 62 hectares of residential and municipal park land close to Highway 1 near the Port Mann Bridge is being moved up to Thursday, May 23, 2019.

The BC Wildfire Service plans to conduct a 17-hectare prescribed burn in the Crawford Creek area as early as Monday, May 13, 2019, to help reduce wildfire threats and prepare the area for replanting.

North Surrey residents are advised that the second aerial-spraying treatment to eradicate invasive gypsy moths from 62 hectares of residential and municipal park land close to Highway 1 near the Port Mann Bridge, will occur on Monday, May 13, 2019, between sunrise and 7:30 a.m., weather permitting.