A spokeswoman with the Cariboo Fire Centre says all residents near the Tzenzaicut Lake wildfire are under an evacuation order after the blaze was discovered in the area located approximately 600 kilometres north of Vancouver on Saturday afternoon.
An area surrounding the evacuation area, located south of the community of Baker Creek, has also been placed on alert as the Tzenzaicut fire doubled to one square kilometre in size by Sunday morning. In the Cariboo, the Pelican Lake wildfire 300 kilometres west of Tzenzaicut Lake has been upgraded to a"wildfire of note," and communities such as Anahim Lake and the Ulkatcho First Nation remain under an alert for possible evacuation.In the Peace River Regional District, which is 1,200 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, crews are battling two out-of-control wildfires near the city of Fort St.