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A wildfire that discovered on Wednesday this week north west of Keremeos, and 7 kilometres west of Olalla, is now being considered a fire of note.
The Old Tom Creek fire is currently 144 hectares in size and is listed as out of control.
We're responding to the ~30 ha Olalla FSR #BCwildfire (K52670) located ~19 km down the Olalla FSR and ~30 km SW #Penticton.
6 firefighters currently on site with air support and equipment. The fire poses no threat to Olalla or the Lower Similkameen Indian Band land at this time. pic.twitter.com/n0bBatb4nm— BC Wildfire Service (@BCGovFireInfo) August 15, 2018
Ground crews, heavy equipment and air tankers have been utilised to create new containment lines or tie into natural lines, roads and retardant drops. Crews have made good progress and are conducting small scale hand ignitions to remove fuel between the fire and control lines.
Today crews will focus on continuing to build containment lines and consolidate existing lines.
There are 40 personnel and 10 pieces of heavy equipment on site today with air support as needed. Other Crews will be operating out of the Keremeos Fire Camp to reduce travel time to this incident.