The number of active wildfires in British Columbia has leapt by about 10 following several days of hot, sunny weather.

BC Wildfire Service figures Thursday morning show 78 active blazes, up from 68 on Wednesday, with 16 new starts and eight fires declared out over the past 24 hours.

There are now 15 fires classified as burning out of control, up from four on Monday, including a cluster of new starts in the northwestern part of the Cariboo region.

The B.C. government has issued a statement reminding people of open-burning prohibitions across the province and campfire bans in the Coastal, Cariboo and Kamloops fire centres ahead of the Labour Day long weekend.

In the Okanagan, a fire sparked by a motorhome veering off the highway and crashing into a tree south of Peachland Tuesday night c

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