Parks Canada said activity on an out of control fire in British Columbia near the Alberta border has spread to an estimated 75 hectares, but it is currently moving in a “favourable” direction.
Lightning is believed to have caused the out of control fire in southern Kootenay National Park earlier this week in the Mitchell Ridge area of the park, approximately two kilometres east of the Kootenay Valley Viewpoint and seven kilometres north of Nipika Mountain Resort.
As of Saturday at 2:30 p.m. that fire had spread to 75 hectares, said Charlie McLellan, fire and vegetation specialist for Parks Canada in Lake Louise, Yoho and Kootenay.
An out-of-control wildfire in the Mitchell Ridge
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