Ammon News - A total of 67 evacuation orders covering 5,650 properties were issued in Canada's British Columbia, while residents of nearly 25,000 other properties are on alert as the White Rock Lake wind-fed wildfire pushes toward Okanagan Lake in B.C. interior.

A statement on Sunday by B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said that the White Rock Lake fire, burning between Kamloops and Vernon, B.C., has also prompted an evacuation alert for most of the city of Vernon, which has a population of around 40,000.

"People who ignore evacuation orders knowingly put fire crews at risk," the minister stressed.