B.C. wildfires: Hullcar Mountain blaze now being held [Video]

After a week of firefighting, the Hullcar Mountain wildfire, located on a hillside 13 kilometres northwest of Armstrong, B.C., is no longer out of control.

The fire was started by a lightning strike the evening of Aug. 4, and grew to 100 hectares in one day. The fire ultimately burned just over 700 hectares before being reclassified as “being held” on Monday.

The fire’s “wildfire of note” status was also removed as its threat to public safety has lessened.

“This means that based on fuel and weather conditions with the assigned resources, this wildfire is not expected to grow beyond the current fire perimeter,” the BC Wildfire Service wrote in an update on its website.

On Sunday, an evacuation order covering 60 properties in the Township of Spallumcheen was downgraded to an alert, and some properties on alert in the Columbia Shuswap Regional District and Okanagan Indian Band were given …