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 donsa国际传媒檛 anticipate further growth.
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Night crews will now be monitoring the fire in priority areas, alongside crews with the Peachland Fire Department.
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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 cansa国际传媒檛 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 Goodesa国际传媒檚 Creek, which is 577 hectares in size.
The concern for this week is another lightning event with wind, he added.
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