Photo: Chelsea Powrie

The Penticton Fire Department pounced on a grassfire Tuesday afternoon near the Carmi substation.

Fire crews were called for a report of a 10-foot-square grassfire at shortly after 4:30 p.m.

Firefighters arrived to find the small fire burning below the power lines leading to the substation and quickly extinguished it. 

The fire was out and in mop-up stage by 5 p.m.

No word at this point on the cause of the blaze.