Precipitation across the Shuswap helping in the fight against the Bush Creek East wildfire
KAMLOOPS — Help, in the form of cooler wet weather, has finally arrived in Shuswap, allowing firefighters to gain some ground on their efforts to hold back the Bush Creek East wildfire.
The fire has torn through the Shuswap, destroying more than one hundred properties and key pieces of infrastructure. It’s now bearing down on Turtle Valley and Sorrento, but the change in weather has helped the firefighting effort.
“Weather is the story of the day as it often is with wildfires,” said BCWS Fire Information Officer Mike McCulley. He said rain fell across the entire wildfire overnight, cooling fire behaviour. “We’re going to be bought a few days where we can really focus our effort and try to gain some containment on the fire.”