Residents on edge, some evacuated as wildfires rage in north-central B.C.

The chair of the Bulkley-Nechako regional district board has had a long week and expects the next one will not be any better, as more evacuation orders and alerts are in effect for an area of north-central B.C. nearly surrounded by forest fires.
“I’ve had better weeks,” Bill Miller chuckled softly over the phone from Burns Lake.
The 35-kilometre stretch of land under evacuation order is west of Fort St. James, in a mostly rural area, while an expanded evacuation alert includes