Mower Causes Grass Fire

Residents remain super focused on any smoke or flames they see, given the extreme fire danger.

Vernon Fire Rescue was called to south end of Okanagan Avenue just before 3 pm Thursday on a report of a grass fire.

Captain Mike Stoll says a man was mowing his grass, and started a small fire.

“It was more like a hay field than a house lawn. It probably just hit a rock or something, and the spark caused a small fire to start,” Stoll tells Kiss FM.

Stoll describes the fire as the “size of a cereal bowl.”

He says it had been put out by the time crews arrived.

Stoll says residents are being very vigilant in reporting fires.

“Any little sign of a fire and people are calling it in, and that’s a good thing,” adds the captain.