Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 23 No. 39 Friday, September 28, 2012
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Close call
Salmon Arm
# When he
smelled smoke while driving Tuesday afternoon, Silver Creek resident Dan Howden pulled his 2002 three-quarter ton Dodge diesel pickup over to the side of Salmon Valley Road. Flames quickly erupted and Howden suffered burns to his right arm when he tried to get items from the truck bed. Seven members of Silver Creek Volunteer Firehall responded and extinguished the blaze.
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Warm weather keeps fire risk high By Barb Brouwer MARKET NEWS STAFF
Fire officials are on high alert and so should the rest of the local population. Wildfire season continues to hold the Salmon Arm Zone of the Kamloops Fire Centre firmly in its grip. “From altitude 1,000 metres and below to valley bottoms, we’re in extreme or high danger class,” said fire protection officer Larry Osachoff. “Campfires are the only thing we’re permitting and we definitely want people to be cautious.” Burning debris piles and industrial
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burning are strictly prohibited at this time and the prohibition will not be lifted until the area experiences significant rainfall. “The entire province is just sitting on edge,” he says, noting that while fire season was late in starting, thanks to heavy spring and early summer rains, there has been almost no precipitation in September – just four mm since Sept. 11 and another .6 mm Monday night. “Since Sept. 1, the Salmon Arm station has only seen one day of moderate danger class – all the rest have been extreme.” Osachoff says fire officials are
watching the situation very closely. One fire near Enderby was in mop-up stage Friday, after being spotted and reported the previous day. It was the result of a lightning strike in August. “We’re still picking up the occasional fire from the lightning storm that went through Aug. 28,” says Osachoff. “That’s a fair length of time for fires to hold over and indicates the dryness of the forests.” Luckily, there has been very little wind and, with cooler nights, the fires have failed to grow to a substantial size.”
“We’ve been fortunate, but if we get a wind, different story,” he says. Kamloops Fire Information officer Michaela Swan says the Wildfire Branch of the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources has kept additional fire crews and air tankers on hand to deal with the extended fire season. There have been 412 fires in the Kamloops Fire Centre with 32 occurring in the Salmon Arm Zone – 20 were caused by lightning and 12 are believed to have been caused by
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