Overview

• The Dryden Creek fire has expanded to nearly 60 hectares, triggering a local state of emergency and evacuation alerts for more than 200 properties and Alice Lake Provincial Park.
• Ground and aerial crews report minimal overnight growth as they fortify containment lines on the fire’s flanks and resume bucketing operations in accessible terrain.
• BC Wildfire Service spokesman Rory Baldwin said crews expect to declare the fire held within the next operational period if favourable weather continues.
• Squamish RCMP have appealed for public information as they investigate the blaze, which is suspected to be human-caused and potentially started on a bike trail.
• The Dryden Creek blaze is one of nearly 100 wildfires active across British Columbia, where the Pocket Knife Creek fire in the northeast has grown past 1,500 square kilometres.