Wildfire near B.C.’s Coquihalla Highway triggers evacuation order and alerts | Unpublished
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Publication Date: September 4, 2025 - 16:08

Wildfire near B.C.’s Coquihalla Highway triggers evacuation order and alerts

September 4, 2025

About 84 properties along the Coquihalla Highway in the British Columbia Interior are on alert and one other has been ordered to evacuate due to an intense wildfire that saw drivers go through showers of embers before the highway was shut down.

The Thompson-Nicola Regional District says the evacuation order and alerts are due to the Mine Creek fire, which has reached 1,900 hectares in size and is burning near the highway between Hope and Merritt.



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