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VICTORIA, British Columbia, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Hot weather and parched earth left 70 percent of British Columbia under fire-danger warnings as 275 wildfires burned in the province, officials said Monday.
The Cariboo region in central British Columbia has been hit particularly hard, provincial fire information officer Alyson Couch told Postmedia News.
"There hasn't been any containment on most of these fires," Couch said as firefighters battled the blazes from the ground and the air.
Most of Vancouver Island on the Pacific Coast remained under an extreme fire hazard rating, Couch said, and campfires were banned.
A fire about 6 miles north of the Jordan River on Vancouver Island's west coast has grown to 75 acres. Another, 6 miles east of Port Alice, had spread to 50 acres, fire information officer Rosalie MacAulay said.
Temperatures were expected to drop by Wednesday but with little rain in the forecast, fire danger will remain high in dry forests, Couch said.
In the Victoria area, firefighters quickly put out numerous grass fires, including one next to Island View Beach.
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