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Crews mop up two fires

Firefighting crews are mopping up and patrolling the Little White Mountain blaze, which is now 100 per cent contained.

Kayla Pepper with the B.C. Wildfire Service, says the fire received a lot of rain over the weekend and crews were able to release heavy equipment working the site.

“Right now, they are working to see if there are any outstanding hotspots as well as cold trailing, where they look to see if there is any heat coming up from the ground.”

The fire has burned 194 hectares of forest.

According to Pepper, officials consider the nearby Myra-Bellevue fire to be a single firefighting operation with the Little White fire as they are so close in proximity.

Crews continue to mop up the Myra-Bellevue fire, which reached six hectares in size.

Both blazes are suspected to be human caused and remain under investigation.

Pepper says only one fire was reported on Sunday in the Kamloops Fire Centre, which was a spot-sized blaze near Sicamous.

“It has been fairly quiet over the weekend, although there were three smaller fires started on Friday.”

All of the blazes sparked on the weekend were not considered fires of note, and have since been brought under control.



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