County of Grande Prairie expands evacuation order as B.C. wildfire spreads into Alberta

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 06, 2025 11:42 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

Update: On Sunday afternoon, astatine astir 4:30 p.m., the region again expanded the country affected by the order, arsenic the occurrence continued to determination northeast. 

The County of Grande Prairie expanded its evacuation order, arsenic a wildfire that ignited successful British Columbia has crossed into Alberta arsenic of Friday afternoon.

The Kiskatinaw River fire, which started conscionable westbound of the Alberta-B.C. border, entered Alberta arsenic of 1:06 p.m. MT Friday, according to the Alberta Emergency Alert website.

According to the B.C. Wildfire Service map, the occurrence was discovered May 28. The County of Grande Prairie, astir 415 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, has been monitoring the fire, issuing its archetypal evacuation alert connected May 29. It upgraded that to an evacuation bid Thursday, forcing immoderate residents to permission their homes.

Just earlier 8:45 p.m. Friday, the region expanded the country affected by the order.

People surviving northbound of Township Road 700 to Township Road 740, and eastbound of the borderline to Range 130, indispensable evacuate their homes and study to the reception centre astatine the Hythe Community Library, astatine 10013 100th Street successful Hythe, Alta., a hamlet wrong the county.

An evacuation alert, meanwhile, is inactive successful effect for residents east of Township Road 710, from scope roads 124 to 130, and northbound on the borderline to Township Road 750, until Highway 43.

The out-of-control wildfire spanned astir 14,300 hectares astir 8:15 p.m. MT Friday, the B.C. wildfire representation shows.

It triggered the Peace River Regional District successful B.C. to contented 3 evacuation orders and 2 alerts, the work says.