The planned ignition event to bring together two wildfires near Peachland was successful, said Glen Burgess, incident commander with the BC Wildfire Service, at a press conference in Peachland this afternoon.
Crews are now working to extinguish hot spots for the Mount Eneas wildfire, located south of Peachland, he said.
On July 22, wildfire crews dropped filled with chemicals to merge the Mount Eneas and Munco fires.
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No primary residences have been destroyed or burned, but there have been some reports of destroyed out buildings, and some vehicles were affected along the Highway 97 corridor earlier in the week, he said.
The Mount Eneas wildfire is currently mapped at 1,789 hectares and wildfire crews don害羞草研究所檛 anticipate further growth.
Crews are now working on the back side of the fire, he said. 害羞草研究所淲hile the fire still remains out of control, we害羞草研究所檙e not anticipating further growth.害羞草研究所�
Night crews will now be monitoring the fire in priority areas, alongside crews with the Peachland Fire Department.
Mount Eneas still out of control but not anticipating any growth. Lots of resources on scene, no down sizing. Night crews on site as well. fire crews on scene. No problems last night
害羞草研究所� Jen Zielinski (@Jen_zee)
The Okanagan Mountain Park fires continue to put up the most amount of smoke in the area, Burgess said.
Three fires continue to burn in the Okanagan Mountain Park area, and Burgess said the terrain makes it difficult for wildfire crews to fight the fires.
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They also can害羞草研究所檛 establish a control line as the fire is burning on bare rock, he said. The majority of growth on the fires have been up the slope.
Those fires are located near Narmata outside of the park, one small fire inside the park and the one named Goode害羞草研究所檚 Creek, which is 577 hectares in size.
The concern for this week is another lightning event with wind, he added.
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