The BC Wildfire Service says the Wesley Ridge wildfire on Vancouver Island has grown to more than five square kilometres as numerous fire departments on the Island converge on the blaze to protect properties and structures around Cameron Lake.

An out-of-control wildfire on the north side of Cameron Lake has triggered an evacuation order and alert for nearby areas on Vancouver Island, close to the site of a 2023 fire that shut down Highway 4 for weeks.

Nearly 400 properties on Vancouver Island, as well as a provincial park, have been ordered evacuated due to a wildfire burning out of control. The Regional District of Nanaimo expanded its evacuation order related to the fire burning on the north banks of Cameron Lake, about 60 kilometres from the City of Nanaimo.