Temperatures expected to rise as crews battle fire north of Lytton, B.C.

Akshay Kulkarni · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 06, 2025 4:11 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

B.C. Wildfire Service crews made bully advancement implicit the play warring an out-of-control wildfire northbound of Lytton, B.C., on Highway 12.

The Izman Creek wildfire was accidentally sparked connected Canada Day by a passing RCMP trailer, and it has resulted successful 3 properties adjacent to the road receiving evacuation orders and 9 different properties being put on evacuation alert. Lytton, which is successful the Fraser Canyon area, is astir 170 kilometres southwest of Kamloops.

Crews accidental they expect temperatures to emergence implicit the adjacent fewer days, and an incoming acold beforehand could make windy conditions successful the Fraser Canyon area.

The blaze was estimated to beryllium astir 245 hectares arsenic of Sunday, with occurrence accusation serviceman Sarah Hall saying that caller size came aft much close assessments were done implicit the weekend.

"The [increase] of size is not owed to accrued occurrence behaviour and occurrence maturation — much truthful owed to close mapping of our occurrence perimeter," she told CBC News.

Hall said crews were seeing smouldering occurrence conditions implicit the weekend, with lighter winds allowing them to combat the occurrence head-on with the assistance of helicopters.

"But we are anticipating a acold beforehand to travel successful connected Tuesday," she said. "So that is bringing higher upwind speeds, astir 50 to 60 kilometre [per hour] gusts."

Highway 12 is lone unfastened to section postulation betwixt Lytton and Lillooet, which is astir 64 kilometres northwest, arsenic a effect of the blaze.

Hall is urging caution for anyone driving done the area, arsenic firefighting unit are going to beryllium visible.

"On the occidental flank, which is wherever Highway 12 is, crews are maintaining their beingness successful that country to show the road overnight arsenic good arsenic during the day," she said.

Meanwhile, the Thompson-Nicola Regional District lifted an evacuation alert connected Friday that had been successful effect for properties threatened by the Mount Scatchard wildfire, westbound of the municipality of Chase, B.C., astir 60 kilometres northeast of Kamloops.

An evacuation bid from the Neskonlith Indian Band for astir 40 properties was downgraded to an alert past week for the Mount Scatchard blaze.