The Lower East Adams Lake wildfire has grown to 219 hectares in size, according to the most recent update from the BC Wildfire Service.

Information Officer Melanie Bibeau says it is growing towards the northeast away from the roughly 100 properties that are on evacuation alert.

“Some of the fire behaviour that was viewed on site was Rank 2, so lower vigour surface fire, with some pockets of Rank 3, which is a little bit more moderate,” Bibeau told Radio NL.

She says there are no ground personnel working on this fire at the moment as it is burning in some challenging terrain.

“The safety of our firefighters is our top priority, and ground personnel will respond to the incident if conditions are deemed to be safe enough for that,” she said. “But we do have helicopters working in that are doing some bucketing on this fire today.”

Bibeau also says the Bush Creek East fire on the other side of Adams Lake remains at 310 hectares in size and is mostly burning Rank 1 and Rank 2.

There are 45 personnel on site of this fire, with heavy equipment crews also working to build a guard.

Both of the lightning caused fires have been burning for over a week.