Bruce Ralston

Bowinn Ma, British Columbia’s minister of emergency management and climate readiness, and Bruce Ralston, the minister of forests, hold a news conference in Vancouver to provide an update on the wildfire situation in the province and a presentation on the fall wildfire outlook… 214 wildfires continue to burn across the province including several in northern BC out of the 1,600 starts this season. About 73 per cent of fires this year were caused by lightning, with human caused blazes sitting at 25 per cent. The Prince George Fire Centre saw the most area burned through the season at 786,012 hectares burned. The next closest centre was the Northwest with 112,233 hectares burned.

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