Kelowna firefighters scramble to douse wildfire in Glenmore neighbourhood
CBC News | Posted: July 27, 2018 9:34 PM | Last Updated: July 27, 2018
933 properties on evacuation alert for fire burning off Glenmore Drive in the 400 block of Yates Road
Local firefighters, as well as others from the B.C. Wildfire Service, are working to contain a blaze that started Friday afternoon in a Kelowna B.C., neighbourhood.
The Yates Road fire is burning in the Glenmore neighbourhood off Glenmore Drive around the 400 block of Yates Road.
Meanwhile, Central Okanagan Emergency Operations has issued an evacuation alert for 933 properties in the area because of the fire.
Leah Babington lives close to the fire with her husband and two pets and says, so far, no homes have caught on fire.
"Pretty nervous, pretty nervous," she said about watching the blaze.
'It's dry back there'
Babington says the neighbourhood, since she has lived there, has not had a fire, but that it's always in the back of her mind that it could happen.
"Because it's very dry back there," she said. "It's all brush and all trees."
The B.C. Wildfire Service says two air tankers have dropped fire retardant on the blaze, while four helicopters are also doing water drops.
The wildfire service, which is calling it the Knox Mountain fire, say it's about three hectares or 0.03 square kilometres in size.
There is no word on what caused it.
With files from Josh Pagé and Brady Strachan.