BC Wildfire and local crews assessing damage inside village of Clinton

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“It’s going around, finding all these little hotspots and flareups, because usually two or three days after a fire has gone through is when you see structural fires because of the embers that you’ve missed, but they’re making sure everything is safe and not before people are allowed to come back in.”

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The village is home to roughly 650 residents, and officials say about 60 people chose to stay behind despite the evacuation order. Those still in town are under a boil water advisory after the wildfire damaged infrastructure near Clinton’s water supply.

“The upper reservoir is getting low. The fire has done some damage up around the upper reservoir and going through the watershed, so we’ve had to put a bypass in to bypass the chlorination system so the straight water goes into the lines for firefighting and for structural control,” added Stanke.

Provincewide, the B.C. Wildfire Service reports more than 130 wildfire active as of Tuesday (July 28), with 50 being listed as out of control. The Peak Lake fire is part of the Big Bar wildfire complex, and its led to numerous other evacuation orders and alerts in the area.