Crews battle 50-hectare fire inside Burns Bog; BC Wildfire Service helping

Crews are battling the fire in burns up Bog near Highway 17 in Delta, which is actually jumped the highway and is nowadays threatening several structure in an industrial park.
The blaze, that is mostly about fifty hectares in sized, is actually situated in the far west side of the bog in an unforested region in between 76th as well as 80th Streets, and it is billowing smoke cigarettes that can become through Metro Vancouver.
The wind ended up being blowing to your eastern for several hours, however nowadays is actually blowing north to Highway 17. A area of Highway seventeen between Highway 99 and also the Nordel Connector offers nowadays been shut, and Tilbury commercial park is actually closed.
Donna MacPherson of the BC Wildfire servicing stated that it broke out before noon, as well as generally there tend to be dozens of provincial firefighters, as well as firefighters starting all around the low Mainland on scene. Some airtankers plus helicopter are also battling their blaze.
There isn't any phrase on what may have sparked their blaze.
Burns Bog is actually an important ecological zone in Metro Vancouver, and it is their biggest peat bog around the created area on the west coastline of North America.
MacPherson said battling the fire inside a bog can prove to be difficult. Inside 2005, the fire inside Burns Bog that was 200 hectares in size burned for the three days, and took 8 days towards extinguish.
“This can be a tremendously hard fire to put out within the long term because of the peat,” this girl said.

“[In 2005] our teams had to meticulously go through that it, actually going underneath the water surface for the pockets in which materials ended up being still on fire.”
Their bog is actually an significant migratory stopping point for birds, with over 175 different species making their region house in one point or any other throughout the year.
The 3,000-hectare wilderness —  eight occasions larger than Stanley Park —  normally home to 300 types of plant species.

Their fire smashed away on the west negative for the bog in which some transmission and saying towers for the localized radio stations are situated. The AM730 traffic tower has recently been damaged, and the facility verified it has-been knocked from the air.