{"id":36325,"date":"2025-07-31T07:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36325\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T07:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:17:16","slug":"stay-out-of-the-area-crews-battle-65-hectare-wildfire-next-to-harrison-lake-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36325\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stay out of the area\u2019: Crews battle 65-hectare wildfire next to Harrison Lake &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>People camping on the east side of Harrison Lake were evacuated from the area as a precaution on Tuesday as crews battled a new out-of-control wildfire.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753129028_943_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Bear Creek wildfire, which was discovered Tuesday evening and has grown to 65 hectares in size, is burning just south of the Bear Creek Recreation Site.<\/p>\n<p>It has been classified as a \u201cwildfire of note,\u201d meaning a fire that is especially visible or poses a threat to public safety.<\/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\/07\/1753128969_722_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>A helicopter crew equipped with night vision technology bucketed the fire overnight, and two unit crews with helicopter and airtanker support continued the fight on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews are asking the public to respect any alerts or closures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an emerging incident; we do understand this may change a number of people\u2019s plans, but we do ask that you stay out of the area,\u201d BC Wildfire Service fire information officer Julia Caranci said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11310506\/tsunami-advisory-russia-earthquake\/\" 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\/07\/1753946236_630_tsunami-advisory.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTsunami watch upgraded to advisory for much of B.C. coast after M8.8 quake off Russian coast\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11310931\/australia-youtube-accounts-age-limit\/\" 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\/07\/a8e598dfcd263bdb076fce16c9fd36e16003776937219fc2466160027b5089da_b348f1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAustralia announces YouTube account ban for children under 16\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire remains out of control in status at this time \u2026 and we do have very active operations happening there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials believe the fire was started by human activity.<\/p>\n<p>The BC Wildfire Service has warned it expects an uptick in fire activity this week, with much of the province\u2019s Interior baking under heat warnings and drought conditions plaguing the South Coast and Vancouver Island.<\/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 People camping on the east side of Harrison Lake were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26745,49,48,1132,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-36325","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\/36325","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=36325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}