Nearly 300 wildfires are burning across British Columbia but showers and cooler temperatures have taken an edge off the most aggressive blazes and curbed a cascade of evacuation orders and alerts. …The roughly 650-square kilometre White Rock Lake fire swept through the communities of Killiney and Ewings Landing yesterday. The district estimates about 70 properties have been burned, in addition to those in Monte Lake and Westwold levelled by the same fire earlier this month. …Travel into the Interior has been complicated by the closure of Highway 5, the Coquihalla Highway, as fire cut the route Sunday, while a mudslide has severed Highway 1 about 30 kilometres north of Lytton. That leaves Highway 3 as the only main road to or from the Lower Mainland. But that route is also shrouded by thick smoke from a fire burning between Hope and Princeton. …8,262 properties around B.C. are on evacuation order, a leap of nearly 2,000 since Friday
In response to the White Rock Lake wildfire, an evacuation order has been re-issued, effective 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12, for residents of Fintry, La Casa and Shalal Road within RDCO’s Central Okanagan West Electoral Area. Residents south of the ‘Valley of the Sun’, along Westside Road from Upper Fintry through La Casa including 6409 Westside Rd., have until 2 p.m. to gather their belongings and exit the area by travelling south on Westside Road (no north access). The re-issued evacuation order includes 608 properties… A detailed map showing properties under Evacuation Order or Alert is available at 
A month-old wildfire burning through forestlands in Northern California lurched toward a small lumber town as blazes across the U.S. West strained resources and threatened thousands of homes with destruction. Crews were cutting back brush and using bulldozers to build lines to keep the Dixie Fire from reaching Westwood east of Lake Almanor, not far from where the blaze destroyed much of the town of Greenville last week. …They were among more than 100 large wildfires burning in a dozen Western states seared by drought and hot, bone-dry weather that has turned forests, and pastures into tinder. The U.S. Forest Service it’s operating in crisis mode, fully deploying firefighters and maxing out its support system. …Oregon Gov. Kate Brown declared an emergency for one of the fires to mobilize crews and other resources to the area of ranches, rural subdivisions and RV parks about 14 miles from the small town of Lakeview.
RICHMOND, Virginia — Thirty-nine employees of the Virginia Department of Forestry are heading to the West Coast to assist crews there as they fight enormous wildfires. “Conditions are very physically demanding, but these are some of Virginia’s most experienced wildland firefighters,” the Virginia Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry said. Firefighters will ship out for 14 days at a time, flying to remote locations to help contain the blaze. John Miller, director of fire and emergency response with the Department of Forestry, said the hands-on experience firefighters get during this time “makes them better prepared to deal with the management of emergency incidents here in the Commonwealth.”
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Moscow – Forest fires in Russia have burned more than four million hectares across the country, the Russian federal agency for forestry reported Wednesday. The federal agency said a total of 172 out of the 257 active forest fires are in the republic of Sakha in the Russian Far East. Smoke from the blazes in Sakha has spread across the Russian Far East… The Krasnoyarsk emergency department said Tuesday that high levels of smoke were recorded in 896 cities and villages in the region. Since the beginning of 2021, there have been 11,878 forest fires that tore through more than 8 million hectares across Russia, according to figures released by the federal agency for forestry.EFE
