Continued cool, damp weather has kept the situation quiet at Clearwater Fire Zone, according to forest protection technician Vaughn McCaig.
A helicopter was up on Monday, looking for smoke that had been seen in Wells Gray Park, but without success.
Clearwater’s three-person Initial Attack crew is leaving this week as its members go back to school. However, other IA crews will be available if the weather warms up.
McCaig noted that the Fire Zone’s weather stations had recorded the first freezing temperature of the season recently at Coldscaur Lake northwest of Clearwater.
“It always seems to freeze first up there,” he said. “It’s a real cold pocket.”
Meanwhile, further south, the campfire ban in the Kamloops Fire Zone was lifted on Thursday, Aug. 21.
The campfire ban in the Clearwater Fire Zone was lifted on July 23.
Only fires half-meter by half-meter in size are allowed.
