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The BC Wildfire Service has set the danger rating in the Kamloops Fire Centre between high and extreme.

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This point was driven home over this past weekend when a group of Okanagan forest warriors discovered three unattended campfires in the woods around Kelowna.

organizer Kane Blake went live with one of the videos of a smouldering unattended campfire up Postill Lake Road on June 26.

Birkner said this trend of unattended campfires is now a major concern for the provincial fire fighting force.

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Not only could a careless camper trigger a destructive wildfire, they are personally facing large fines.

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The Kamloops Fire Centre itself covers a very large area from Blue River in the north to the U.S. border in the south and from Bridge River in the west to the Monashee Mountains in the east.

There are currently six active fires in the Kamloops Fire Centre and officials have responded to 45 fires so far this year, which have burned a total of 329 hectares.

The 156-hectare Dew Drop fire near Kamloops is currently

Provincially, crews have attended 243 different wildfires that have burned 1,636 hectares.

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