British Columbia wildfire fighters and local crews in Merritt are responding to a large fire at an industrial site Saturday afternoon, according to the city.
B.C. Wildfire Service (BCWS) and Merritt Fire Rescue were called just before 1:30 p.m. PT to a fire burning at the old Merritt Green Energy Plant at the former Tolko lumber mill site at the southern edge of Merritt, a small city in B.C.’s southern interior about 200 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.
The blaze is approximately 0.6 hectares in size and considered out-of-control, according to the B.C. Wildfire Service’s website.
“The City’s Emergency Operations Centre has been activated to support the response,” the city said in a news release at 4:30 p.m. PT
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