Wildfire in Kelowna, B.C., now being held
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A wildfire on Knox Mountain in Kelowna, B.C., spurred the evacuation of more than 400 properties as emergency crews worked to snuff out the blaze near Okanagan Lake on Saturday.
KELOWNA – A wildfire on Knox Mountain in Kelowna, B.C., spurred the evacuation of more than 400 properties Saturday afternoon as emergency crews worked to snuff out the blaze near Okanagan Lake.
However, hours later the evacuation order was downgraded to an alert and the wildfire is now considered as being held.
According to the BC Wildfire Service, the blaze is 6.5 hectares in size and human caused.
Jodie Foster, a public information officer with the Central Okanagan Emergency Operations Centre, said two evacuation orders came down for the Magic Estates and Poplar Point areas of Kelowna covering a total of 448 properties due to a wildfire.
Cpl. Judith Bertrand with the Kelowna RCMP said police assisted fire crews with the evacuation to ensure public safety and that winds made the direction of the fire hard to predict.
“The Magic Estates area is quite a dense residential area,” Bertrand said in an interview. “In addition to that, the park is visited by a lot of people that are celebrating Canada Day, visiting, hiking, so we need to make sure that these people are safe.”
Bertand said people had to be evacuated as fire suppression efforts were underway, cautioning those in the area to not to get too close as smoke billowed into the sky above Okanagan Lake.
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