The community of Anahim Lake has been ordered evacuated as wildfires burning along Highway 20, north and east of Bella Coola in central B.C., moved closer to homes overnight.

It's part of a large number of evacuation orders issued by the Cariboo Regional District and the Ulkatcho First Nation Friday morning at 6 a.m. PT.

People living on 505 parcels of land in the Dusty Lake and Charlotte Lake fire areas have been told to leave immediately.

Orders have also been issued for 309 parcels of land because of the Beef Trail Creek wildfire.

That fire is burning north of Bella Coola and east of Tweedsmuir Park.

Anahim Lake is home to around 1,500 residents and is well-known as the hometown of NHL goaltender Carey Price, whose mother Lynda Price was chief of the Ulkatcho First Nation.

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