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Highway closed temporarily by hay fire
The highway between Lake Country and Vernon was partially closed Tuesday morning after a hay bale being transported on a truck caught fire.
The Lake Country Fire Department received a report of the fire just after 10 a.m. July 25 and crews were dispatched to the site.
Firefighters arrived on the scene near the junction to Oyama between Wood and Kalamalka Lakes and discovered an 18-wheeler with one of its large hay bales smoldering.
“The load was fairly close to the trailer unit and the exhaust stack for the tractor had been bent back, and as it was travelling, it was heating up the hay bales, so it was actually in very close proximity to the hay and it ignited the load,” Lake Country Fire deputy chief Brent Penner told Vernon Matters.