The Chilako wildfire south of Vanderhoof is no longer a fire of note.
"It's been held for a couple of days now, so we've been able to take that off the list," said B.C. Wildfire Service information officer Sharon Nickel on Tuesday.
First discovered on July 1, the lighting-caused blaze 60 kilometres south of Vanderhoof has been listed as large as 1,450 hectares.
Nickel said crews have also been keeping their eyes on a cluster of lightning-caused fires in and around Ancient Forest-Chun T'oh Whudujut Provincial Park and Protected Area.
The largest one, at 0.2 hectares and found just west of the parking lot should be under control by the end of Tuesday, she said.
All of the others fires are "spot fires" of less than 0.1 hectares and both Highway 16 and the park remain open.
"It's a lightning strike on one tree sort of thing so as far as we can tell, no impact to the park," Nickel said.
One of the fires in that area, adjacent to the west side of the parking lot, was suspected to have been person-caused, but Nickel said officials have backed away from that first assessment.
"They (now) feel that it was more likely caused by lightning just because of the cluster that's there," Nickel said.
All of the fires in that area erupted as thunderstorms swept through the area during July 10-11.
Elsewhere, only the Cutoff Creek fire near the Kenney Dam, about 60 kilometres south of Fraser Lake, remains a wildfire of note. It stood at 10,129 hectares as of Tuesday morning, up from 9,500 on Sunday.
(For perspective, one hectare is equal to 10,000 square metres, about the area inside of the 400-metre running track at Masich Place Stadium.)
An evacuation alert remained in place for an area spanning 60 kilometres south along Kenney Dam Road to Knewstubb Lake and six kilometres west of Kluskus Forest Service Road along the Natalkuz 500 Road to Knewstubb Lake.
Alerts issued by the Regional District of Bulkley Nechako also remained in place for the vicinity of Camsell Lake, north of Burns Lake, and the Grizzly Lake-Woodcock Lake wildfires south of Vanderhoof, none of them considered fires of note.
Further south in the Cariboo Fire Centre, the Purdy Lake fire remained a fire of note at 3,600 hectares and an evacuation alert issued by the Cariboo Regional District for properties near Titetown and Nazko north area remained in place.
