Two incident management teams from Australia arrived this week to relieve workers in northern and southern part of Vanderhoof-Fort St. James zone.
Even more helpful was rain on Monday to help them and the B.C. Wildfire Service crews make progress dousing the blazes but with more warn and dry weather in the forecast, that fire activity is expected to increase later this week.
In the central Interior, 19 fires that are highly visible and pose a threat to public safety are currently burning out of control.
“Generally, the rain over the past few days has decreased a lot of fire behaviour on some of those bigger fires which has allowed crews, but especially heavy equipment to get in there and do a lot of good work,” said BC Wildfire Service Prince George Fire Centre fire information officer Jean Strong, from her office in Vanderhoof.
“We’ve had a lot of support from heavy equipment in the region and they have been putting guards in lot of those fires which has helped us while we’re waiting for more resources to arrive from other places.”
Clear skies are in the weather forecast for the next three days but widespread smoke is expected to return to Prince George for the next three days, with predicted highs of 21C today, 24C on Wednesday and 27 C on Thursday.
Environment Canada is forecasting a 70 per cent chance of showers for Prince George on Friday with a high of 24 C and a 40 per cent chance of rain on Saturday with a high of 23 C.
