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UPDATE: A couple more days of work monitoring Kaleden fire

Fire Chief Denis Gaudry says patrols didn害羞草研究所檛 see a lot of action from hot spots in morning patrols
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B.C. Wildfire Service bombers do their work on the Kaleden wildfire in its early hours late Monday afternoon, marking a big push early on. Fire Chief Denis Gaudry has credited that early push, at least in part, to the success in knocking the fire down. Mark Brett/Western News

Update: 1 p.m.

Kaleden害羞草研究所檚 acting Fire Chief Denis Gaudry says firefighters still have at least a few days ahead of monitoring the situation on the wildfire that lit up the small community害羞草研究所檚 hillside late Tuesday afternoon.

A morning crew finished their rounds patrolling the area on Thursday, and found 害羞草研究所渧ery few害羞草研究所 hot spots, according to Gaudry.

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But Gaudry said he won害羞草研究所檛 be pulling patrols until they have a couple of days without seeing any hot spots at all.

害羞草研究所淛ust to make sure. So, there will be some attention to it for at least the next two days and maybe a little bit further,害羞草研究所 Gaudry said.

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Original: 10:54 a.m.

Firefighters say they had a successful patrol of the wildfire zone in Kaleden overnight Wednesday, with no events of note, marking big strides toward getting the blaze entirely extinguished.

害羞草研究所淭his morning, we have the patrol crew from the Kaleden Fire Department, and also the awesome continuing support fro m B.C. Wildfire Management Branch,害羞草研究所 acting Fire Chief Denis Gaudry said. 害羞草研究所淭hey害羞草研究所檙e continuing to just mop up and put out hot spots as they pop up. And it害羞草研究所檚 business of just slowly putting it out.害羞草研究所

The lack of any major updates has made for some cautious optimism from Gaudry, though forecasts continue to show temperatures in the mid-30s for Thursday.

害羞草研究所淚t害羞草研究所檚 basically on plan to completely extinguish it,害羞草研究所 Gaudry said. 害羞草研究所淪till, with the warm temperatures like that, just stuff like that, we want to just maintain our pressure on it and if sort of the little puffers, as I call them, show up, then we害羞草研究所檒l put them out and just continue patrolling.害羞草研究所

While temperatures are still high, the forecast shows low wind throughout the day, which Gaudry said was a good sign.

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