”Tactical evacuations’ as B.C. Interior wildfire grows: minister

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — British Columbia’s minister for emergency management says “tactical evacuations” have been carried out in the Thompson-Nicola area of the province’s Interior, where an out-of-control wildfire is threatening communities.
Bowinn Ma told a news briefing in Kamloops that the Shetland Creek fire grew “quickly and considerably last night.”
The Thompson-Nicola Regional District issued an evacuation order for 76 properties in the Venables Valley