Fire trucks/ambuland/police - chute lake road

[paulo123]

Witnessed 4 fire trucks, several ambulance and police racing up Chute Lake road around 11:30 today. Anyone know what was going on?

[gman313]

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[Queen K]

Witnessed 4 fire trucks, several ambulance and police racing up Chute Lake road around 11:30 today. Anyone know what was going on?

I also witnessed this happening. I was pulling out when a large fire truck was parking in Providence Ave. Moments later going up Chute Lake was everyone else, and racing describes it perfectly.

[jogil]

Sitting on my deck. Anyone witnessing fire at too of mountain chute Lake area???

[WalterWhite]

Sitting on my deck. Anyone witnessing fire at too of mountain chute Lake area???

Slash burning - going on in a number of areas around valley. This was posted on Castanet the other day:

https://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton ... ing-season

[lightspeed]

Sitting on my deck. Anyone witnessing fire at too of mountain chute Lake area???

Yup one big pyre top of the hill.

[artistwithaflare]

Looking through the scope at the huge flames!...does anyone have any updates?

[KGT]

The fire yesterday was someone cleaning their oven when they were out. Not sure if it started a fire or what though.

As for the burn right now, has anyone confirmed that it's definitely slash burning?

[Frisk]

Any smoke or glow in the hills from November - March is the result of either logging slash burning, forestry conducting prescribed burns or open burning on private property. Pretty sure we have this same thread every single year.

[lightspeed]

Looking through the scope at the huge flames!...does anyone have any updates?

Yes. They are some huge flames.

[artistwithaflare]

Looking through the scope at the huge flames!...does anyone have any updates?

6:24 p.m. Castanet just reported it was slash burning.

[seewood]

Slash piles can get huge.

Bunchers fall and bunch the trees for the skidder to drag them to roadside tree length.
Processors take the trees, limb, buck to length and cut out defect. The piles can get huge.. 30 feet high and 50+ feet diameter at the base.

[Anonymous123]

Looking through the scope at the huge flames!...does anyone have any updates?

https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/211920/Visible-fire-a-controlled-burn