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Things are going from bad to worse in British Columbia’s fire zone. It’s not just the growing number wild fires now around four hundreds, but get this, the water in rivers in southern BC is turning a murky black. Susana DA Silva’s site first hand. She joins us now from Lillooet.


Ina, many here in Lillooet say looks like something out of movie, a local river has turn black, likely cause by nearby forest fires and it caused a lot of concern. This is normally per steam blue water. So clean you can see every rock on the bottom.

“Oh, I’ve never seen a water like this before be in up here for 25 plus years.”

At 11 am, fisher man notice the water drastically changing color and pull there nets. Some noticing there were something wrong with the fish.

“Well, fish online and fish on net is struggling like crazy, but there are no struggle at all.”

This is an important tradition fishing area, for several unbridgenal communities.

“Well, my main concern is fire returned, it is possible be, but I like to verify myself.”

The worry is that today’s rain has cause toxic fire retarded and charge ground to run into the river. There are certainly a lot of that around, the jungle mountain fire covers more than 50 hundred hatra. Cruises are struggling to control it.

“Reach and confirm hot spot of black melting, all the area is about 50,000 feet inch off the main guard.”

But they aren’t easy to spot.

“Sometime you don’t even see the smoke occurred at that a time. There’ll be a little flys, flying around and that’s usually a sign of heat there. The bugs are hopping around the hot spots.”

Some relieve from arrived of the formal fire fighters from Alberta and Ontario. But now there’s another crisis to mending attention.

“There’s tons of fish, that’ll probably be, either been toxic poisoned or what I just don’t know.”

Fire officials are trying to confirm this is the result of run off from fires. The department of fish of ocean says, it is telling anyone to pull their nets from the water, the most people are, because they’re not willing to take any chances.