Crews from View Royal, North Saanich and Sidney utilize a drafting pond to soak stacked timber at the mill in Williams Lake. (Photo courtesy North Saanich Fire Department/Facebook) Members of the View Royal, Metchosin and Langford fire departments have been deployed to the Interior to help fight wildfires.
Crews from across the province have combined forces to help battle the roughly 160 wildfires threatening the central and southern Interior. Sixteen of those are interface fires with evacuation orders or alerts associated with them. The areas under evacuation include: the Fraser River east to the Beaver Lake Road, north to the Quesnel River, east along the Quesnel River to approximately Hydraulic, south east to Antoine Lake, south to MacIntosh Lake, east to the existing order at 150 Mile.