High Temperatures in BC Pose ‘Threat of New Wildfires,’ Wildfire Service Warns

High Temperatures in BC Pose ‘Threat of New Wildfires,’ Wildfire Service Warns
A pyrocumulus cloud, also known as a fire cloud, rises in the mountains above Lytton, B.C., on Aug.15, 2021. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
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Rain and cooler temperatures in northeastern British Columbia will help suppression efforts for two out-of-control wildfires, but high temperatures forecast for later this week may pose a new threat, says a BC Wildfire Service spokesman.

Cliff Chapman, the director of wildfire operations, told a news conference Monday that the area has not received enough precipitation to “knock that hazard down.”