BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) crews will be carrying out prescribed burns within the city of Williams Lake on March 19.
Crews were on site March 18 preparing areas of the Stampede Grounds, a section along Gibbon Road and a park behind the Lake City Secondary School, in order to carry out the burns March 19.
BCWS will be working with Williams Lake First Nation and Williams Lake Fire Department to conduct the operations.
Burning of the fuels to provide wildfire risk reduction will begin at the Stampede Grounds, move to Gibbon Road and then finish behind Lake City Secondary.
Dylan Simpson, a wildfire protection officer with the Central Cariboo Zone of the Cariboo Fire Centre, said the prescribed burn on March 19 will help clear dry grass and brush.
“The goal is to reduce the hazards,” said Simpson.
“The fire department deals with a lot of calls that happen in this rodeo grounds especially, and so we’re reducing the hazard, improving the site and just making it overall safe.”
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