Sunday wildfire updates

Jul 16, 2017 | 3:16 PM

ASHCROFT — Firefighters continue to battle the Ashcroft Reserve fire.

Chief Fire Information officer Kevin Skrepnek says the fire currently sits at 42, 300 hecatres which makes it the largest fire burning in B.C

Skrepnek says the White Lake Fire near Williams Lake crossed the Fraser River last night but did not reach the city itself saying it’s currently seven to ten kilometres north of the city.

The Princeton fire is reported at 33-hundred hectares in size and 40 per cent contained.