A planned ignition covering around 30 square kilometres of land is underway at the northeast corner of the destructive White Rock Lake wildfire west of Vernon.
A fire information officer with the provincial wildfire service says the area was chosen because it’s the last section of the fire’s perimeter that doesn’t have good containment due to steep and rocky terrain that’s made fighting it difficult.
Forrest Tower says once the ignition is complete, crews will spend a few days making sure control lines are secure around the 813-square-kilometre fire that’s been burning west of Okanagan Lake since mid-July.
Elsewhere, fire information officer Roslyn Johnson says aerial efforts to fight a two-square-kilometre fire detected Saturday south of Penticton were not affecting service at the local airport after the city warned they might.
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