UPDATE 9 pm – The Village of Chase is on an evacuation alert due to the Bush Creek East wildfire.

Its as the fast-moving Bush Creek East wildfire has moved closer to the community, fuelled by strong winds from the north.

The Thompson-Nicola Regional District has also issued an evacuation order for 135 properties in the Turtle Valley area, south of the Trans Canada. Another 129 properties in Turtle Valley remain on alert for now.

BC Hydro is reporting a power outage for over 7,300 properties in the area, from Monte Creek and Pritchard all the way east to Sorrento, as well as as far east as St. Ives in the North Shuswap.

Hundreds of other properties are on evacuation order or alert in the North Shuswap and around the Adams Lake area as strong winds also push the Lower East Adams Lake fires south.

“Crews have been pulled back to staging areas in the interest of responder safety,” the BC Wildfire Service said.

A number of residents in the North Shuswap are being evacuated by boat to Kamloops as their road access has been cut off by wildfires.