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Fires 100% contained

Saturday's rains have significantly improved the wildfire situation in the Central Okanagan.

Fire information officer Melissa Klassen with the B.C. Wildfire Service says both the Myra-Bellevue fire and Little White fires are now 100 per cent contained and in mop-up.

"The rain made a very significant impact over the last 24 hours," Klassen said Sunday morning.

The soaking has lowered the fire danger rating in the region to low to moderate.

She said crews are now patrolling both sites, which are in close proximity east of Kelowna and are considered by the Wildfire Service as a single fire operation.

"Crews are looking for hot spots and cold trailing," said Klassen.

Cold trailing is when firefighters form a line and walk the area, feeling with their hands for heat coming up out of the ground and looking for signs of continued burning that could be underground.

Twenty personnel remain on site between the two fires.

The Little White fire has burned an area of 194 hectares, and the Myra-Bellevue fire six hectares.

Klassen said there were a few lightning strikes associated with the weather system passing through. These were reported in the Vernon and Salmon Arm fire zones, but no new fires resulted.



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