West Kelowna Fire Department tackling fire in Upper Glenrosa on Friday night

[Castanet News]

The West Kelowna Fire Department is on scene of a fire spreading in the trees in the Upper Glenrosa area on Friday night. Tye Brash told Castanet News he was...

[polelady]

Now 10:30 pm is there an update ?

[Hornswoggle]

8 hours later is there any updates?

[vic35099]

no lightning,,human caused.

[Lumby Glen]

Not much of a fire, too early in the season.

[Kelly C]

Ho hum, the annual forest fire in upper Glenrosa, my guess kids partying with a bonfire that got out of control.

[BGrigg07]

Whose nearby burn pile nearly started this fire, and what are the repercussions for them?

[toyota20]

Whose nearby burn pile nearly started this fire, and what are the repercussions for them?

Forty lashes, twenty years in prison and Carney as their PM.

[Greg Bros]

Were these burn piles from fire mitigation work? If so, were they being monitored?

[watchd0g]

That so called 'nuisance' by jason brolund, the same guy who was ready to bulldoze our homes to save politically advantageous homes, land and businesses, was only so by the grace of God and some hard work.

We demand to know who is responsible and that they will be punished harshly, the terms of which must be public. This will not go away jason!

[RustyCrayon]

So this is a "controlled burn" that got away and was labelled as out of control earlier today. How is it that a controlled burn suddenly ended up being out of control? Who was in charge of keeping an eye on this controlled burn?

Forgive me, but it's rather hard to trust and feel safe with this sort of lax attitude. This is the same attitude that allowed the McDougall Creek fire to smoulder for 2 full days before it exploded when the wind picked up (wind which was in the forecast) and burned both sides of the lake.

[tenterden]

Whose nearby burn pile nearly started this fire, and what are the repercussions for them?

Forty lashes, twenty years in prison and Carney as their PM.

Is that like a bad marriage?!