9 p.m. update: 香蕉视频直播�Definitely a quieter day in terms of weather overall and that comes with quieter fire behaviour as well. Still active across the north of the fire, but in terms of what we香蕉视频直播檈r been seeing in proceeding days, generally a calmer day,香蕉视频直播� says Elephant Hill Fire Information Officer Claire Allen.

Most of the recent growth on the fire occurred overnight yesterday, says Allen.

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Two groups of water skimming air tankers from Quebec worked off of Green Lake and Sheridan Lake today, says Allen.

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Allen says they are working with structural firefighters to protect buildings.

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The evacuations that took place yesterday included approximately 729 people, according to the CRD. The areas put on alert affected about 3,136 people.

12:30 p.m. update: The Elephant Hill fire has expanded to 181,273 hectares in size, according to the BC Wildfire Service.

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She says she expects an update this afternoon regarding the growth towards Sheridan Lake.

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Still, she says the situation remains smokey and dynamic.

Water bombers working on the fire are provided by the province of Quebec, says Allen, through an agreement with the Interagency Forest Fire Centre, the governing wildfire body between Canadian bodies.

The planes are CL-415s and are referred to as Super Scoopers.

Original story: There was no movement north from the run towards Jack Frost Lake the fire had taken, says Fire Information Officer for the Elephant Hill fire, Claire Allen. She says it appears there has been growth to the east towards Sheridan Lake, however.

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She says updates will come once there香蕉视频直播檚 an accurate estimate of growth.

香蕉视频直播淥ur operations folks are still up in the air right now getting a better look at where the fire grew last night. We do know some growth did occur. It was quite active and windy last night until about 1 in the morning and then the wind slackened down and we actually were granted a bit of a reprieve in terms of an increase in the relative humidity up to approximately 70 per cent in the more active areas of the fire. That really helps put a lid on some of the more volatile and aggressive fire behaviour.

香蕉视频直播淯nfortunately it came quite late in the wee hours of the morning there so we did see some continued growth overnight which is unfortunately when our aviation resources cannot fly to respond. We did have night crews teamed up with structural firefighters to monitor the situation but when fire growth is moving at such a quick pace just given the winds that we were seeing, it香蕉视频直播檚 unfortunately not safe to do direct attack given how quickly the fire moves and how volatile it is.香蕉视频直播�

It香蕉视频直播檚 still quite active but not immediately threatening structures in the Hihium Lake area, she says. Generally, things are quite quiet on the fire right now, but they香蕉视频直播檙e expecting an increase in fire behaviour to similar things they香蕉视频直播檝e been seeing in the last 48 hours with midday heating, says Allen.

Skimmers are working off of Green Lake and they have all resources responding, says Allen.

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