Cooler weather helped keep down Sitkum Creek wildfire
The Sitkum Creek wildfire’s ranking was downgraded Friday, July 26.
The B.C. Wildfire Service confirmed the fire burning near Sugar Lake, northeast of Lumby, was at Rank 1 as of the morning of July 26.
“Rank 1 is a smoldering ground fire, there’s not really any open flame, there might be a couple pockets here and there but that’s it, and then it has a slow rate of spread,” Cassidy Martin, a fire information officer with the BCWS, told Vernon Matters.
“[Thursday] it was ranked 2, 3, and pockets of 4. That’s a good change from our perspective. The Rank 3 is an organized flame, there’s occasional candling (fire going up trees) and a moderate rate of spread, darker smoke, that sort of thing. So this is a great change.”