{"id":118722,"date":"2025-09-04T07:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118722\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T07:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:19:11","slug":"b-c-wildfire-closes-coquihalla-highway-between-hope-and-merritt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118722\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. wildfire closes Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Merritt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The Coquihalla Highway was closed in both directions between Hope, B.C., and Merritt on Wednesday due to wildfire activity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/bc-wildfire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BC Wildfire<\/a> Service said the Mine Creek fire is threatening the highway and that the Ministry of Transportation had closed the route at its recommendation.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, which is burning about 44 km northeast of Hope, was last measured at 483 hectares in size, and is classified as out of control.<\/p>\n<p>It was first spotted on Monday, and officials believe it was sparked by lightning.<\/p>\n<p>The wildfire service has deployed structure protection units to protect critical infrastructure in the area, and is attacking the fire with bombers and helicopters.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tThe Mine Creek Fire seen from the Coquihalla Highway on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy: Kim Bremner Musselman\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday evening, several evacuation alerts had been issued by multiple regional districts due to the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Thompson-Nicola Regional District has put <a href=\"https:\/\/eoc.tnrd.ca\/eoc-notice\/evacuation-alert-brookmere-murray-lake-mine-creek-wildfire-50684\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">84 properties in the Brookmere area on evacuation alert<\/a>, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/eoc.tnrd.ca\/eoc-notice\/evacuation-order-juliet-drive-mine-creek-wildfire-50686\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one property on evacuation order.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756402221_230_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>The Fraser Valley Regional District has also issued an evacuation alert in the Coquihalla Lakes area, covering part of the Coquihalla Summit Recreation Area and land to both sides of Highway 5 east of the Great Bear Snow Shed.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11390324\/trump-tariffs-supreme-court-ruling\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/f6bc621d7bbd1e1ef65fdd2383c2c60b66230634ed8d567434f4277864c70922_2fb34a.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTariff policies could \u2018unwind,\u2019 Trump says, if Supreme Court won\u2019t back him\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11390424\/temporary-foreign-worker-program-pierre-poilievre\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1756970351_148_Poilievre-TFW.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tEnd Canada\u2019s temporary foreign worker program, Poilievre says\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It comes as B.C. sees a surge in new wildfire activity amid record-breaking late season temperatures and numerous lightning strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Wednesday, B.C. Forests Minister Ravi Parmar warned the public that the province wasn\u2019t out of the woods as far as the fire risk is concerned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me be clear: the risk of new wildfire starts and week-over-week growth remains a serious issue for much of the province, and the immediate weather forecast will continue to create challenging wildfire conditions,\u201d Parmar said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough it may feel like summer is winding down, we are still in an active wildfire season. Everybody must do what they can to help prevent new wildfire starts and (it) is more important than ever to take the necessary steps to remain prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DriveBC is directing travellers to detour via Highway 1 or Highway 3. There is no estimated time for the route to reopen.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Coquihalla Highway was closed in both directions between Hope,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26745,49,48,1132,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-118722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-bc-wildfire","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-fire","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}