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The community of Anahim Lake has been ordered evacuated as wildfires burning along Highway 20, north and east of Bella Coola in central B.C., moved closer to homes overnight. It’s part of a large number of evacuation orders issued by the Cariboo Regional District and the Ulkatcho First Nation Friday morning at 6 a.m. PT. About 570 people living along the Anahim Lake, Nimpo Lake, Dusty Lake and Charlotte Lake area were asked to leave immediately due to the Dusty Lake wildfire, which has spread to more than 53 square kilometres. …Another fire in the region, the 102-square-kilometre Beef Trail Creek wildfire burning north of the highway and northwest of the Dusty Lake fire, already prompted an evacuation order earlier this week for an area north of Anahim Lake. …Mikhail Elsay, fire information officer with the B.C. Wildfire Service (BSWS), said Friday morning the Dusty Lake fire in particular is proving to be very difficult to contain.