
Wildfire breaks out near Batchelor Heights in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – A blaze broke out near Batchelor Heights earlier today and is visible from Kamloops.
According to Madison Smith, a fire information officer with B.C. Wildfire Service, 6 B.C. Wildfire Service personnel are currently on-site and were assisted by an air tanker earlier.
She says the fire is suspected to be human-caused.
According to Kamloops Fire Rescue platoon captain Darryl Cooper. the fire is currently under control and is half a hectare. Cooper says 16 Kamloops Fire Rescue personnel were on site.
“The fire is half a hectare in size, and it was rank two. It is currently under control, and we have a 75 per cent wet line around the fire,’ Cooper says.
iNFOnews will update this story as more details become available.
Six #BCwildfire Service personnel are assisting the Kamloops Fire Rescue Services with a fire that is approximately four kilometres from Kamloops. The Long Lake fire (K21553) is ~1 ha. Please be aware that the fire is highly visible from #Kamloops pic.twitter.com/ZdV2g2T83C
— BC Wildfire Service (@BCGovFireInfo) August 29, 2019
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