Crews still tackle Terrace Mountain fire
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The Terrace Mountain wildfire may not pose a threat, but it continues to smoulder.
While the 9,277-hectare blaze is 100 percent contained and crews have been withdrawn from active fire suppression, personnel remain on site patrolling the perimeter and engaging in the rehabilitation process.
“Those who are currently patrolling the perimeter of the fire are looking specifically for any hot spots within the outside edge of the fire guard and extinguishing any spots found,” said Elise Riedlinger, an information officer with the B.C. Forest Service.
The rehabilitation process provides for the forest landscape to return, as close as possible, to its original state after fire suppression activities, with the goal of reducing potential erosion.
Rehabilitation activities can include hand and machine guard restoration, deactivation of fire roads, soil stabilization, and repairing water sheds and private land impacts in certain cases.
In other fire-related activity, the Kamloops Fire Centre has received numerous calls about smoke in the Okanagan.
“As depicted on current satellite imagery, this smoke is being carried into the Okanagan from a number of wildfires burning in the state of Oregon to the south,” said Riedlinger.
“There are no new wildfires in the area of a size to produce smoke of the density being reported.
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