The Wildfire Management Branch is sending an additional 62 personnel to assist with increased fire activity in the Yukon. One tanker group will also be departing for Alaska.

The Northwest Fire Centre responded to eight new wildfires on Monday, all the result of lightning that moved through northern B.C. throughout the afternoon.

Wildfire Management Branch crews, in partnership with the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, have completed a 5.8-hectare fuel management project southeast of Barriere near Agate Bay Road.

The Wildfire Management Branch has sent personnel to the Northwest Territories to aid in fire suppression efforts.

Communities within the Cassiar Fire Zone will continue to see smoke as a result of a large wildfire burning near Mess Creek, east of Mount Edziza Provincial Park.

Five companies in an innovative forestry practices agreement have had a combined increase of 373,000 cubic metres per year for their allowable annual cut, effective from Jan. 1, 2013, to Dec. 31, 2015.

Effective at noon on June 24, 2013, the size of open fires will be restricted in most of the Coastal Fire Centre to help prevent human-caused wildfires and protect the public.

The Wildfire Management Branch is sending an additional 22 personnel and two aircraft to the Yukon Territory to assist with wildfire response operations.

Due to an increase in wildfire activity, B.C. is sending 23 firefighting personnel to the Yukon announced Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister Steve Thomson today.