Residents of the B.C. Interior village of Clinton are facing an anxious wait to discover the fate of their community after an advancing wildfire forced them to flee.
The community was ordered to evacuate on Friday as flames swept toward it late in the afternoon.
Mayor Roland Stanke said the situation in the community of several hundred residents, about 350 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, was “extremely bad.”
He said in an interview late Friday that he had been watching the fires from a camera set up at his home, which he expected to lose to the flames.
The Thompson-Nicola Regional District issued an evacuation expansion overnight, along Highway 97, due to the Pear Lake wildfire. Officials say 12 properties have been added to the evacuation order, while 107 properties have been added to the alert….