British Columbia is bracing for another hot weekend with wildfire smoke and
lightning strikes also in the forecast the province's wildfire service says there are now
about 240 fires burning and that has blanketed some regions in smoke for weeks metro Vancouver is also now expected to see smoky air roll in and heat warnings are in effect for most of the province with temperatures expected from low 30s up to 40 degrees fire officials in bc say the for forecast of high temperatures and those lightning strikes could start more fires in the coming days earlier i spoke with gene strong a fire information officer based on Kamloops.
we are predicting that lightning but we're also anticipating precipitation in many areas of the province and we're hopeful that that precipitation may outweigh some of the lightning starts with that being said we are still preparing a number of the initial attacks crews around the province in those areas where where we are expecting lightning so hopeful that we'll be able to get on any of those new starts quickly we're certainly with that hot weather we
are expecting to see fires uh really really burning intensely so especially on those big fires expecting that activity can continue overnight when normally we might see it cool off and relax a bit overnight so really ensuring that we have our crews ready for the 24-hour operations and
those those big responses we are hopeful for the precipitation and hoping that as this system breaks down we'll see a a little bit of relief .