CP NewsAlert: Fire evacuation defiance threatening fight and must end, minister says

By The Canadian Press on August 23, 2023.

A fallen tree burns at the Lower East Adams Lake wildfire, in Scotch Creek, B.C., on Sunday, August 20, 2023. Firefighters in British Columbia's southern interior continue to battle a number of significant wildfires even as cooler, wetter weather is anticipated in the region. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

KELOWNA, B.C. – British Columbia’s emergency management minister says people who are defying evacuation orders are putting at risk the “unified strategy” for battling the destructive blazes.

Bowinn Ma says the BC Wildfire Service has “opened a dialogue” to understand why some are defying the orders, but the directives carry legal weight and defiance of them must end.

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