By Greg Fry

Kamloops Fire Centre expands burn prohibitions

Jun 21, 2018 | 4:11 PM

KAMLOOPS — In a bid to help prevent human-caused wildfires, any open burns larger than a campfire will be banned in the Kamloops Fire Centre effective noon Friday (June 22).

This means anyone conducting Category 2 or Category 3 open burns at elevations above 1,200 metres must extinguish those fires by noon Friday. These types of burns are already prohibited at elevations below 1,200 metres.

This prohibition will remain in effect until Oct. 15, 2018 or until the public is otherwise notified.

You can see a map of the affected areas by clicking here.

This prohibition does not ban campfires that are a half-metre high by a half-metre wide and does not apply to cooking stoves that use gas, propane or briquettes.

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Other prohibited activities include the use of sky lanterns, fireworks, burn barrels, binary exploding targets and tiki torches.