On Labour Day, fewer fire fighters are labouring on the Kault Hill fire about eight kilometres west of Salmon Arm than there were on Sunday.

Wildfire BC reports Monday morning that the fire is 100 per cent contained, so it is classified as under control.

Rachel Witt, fire information officer with Wildfire BC, says the fire was more accurately mapped this morning and measures 0.9 hectares. There was no growth in the blaze overnight.

She says 11 personnel, which include fire fighters as well as fire investigation staff, are currently working on the fire.

The cause is still under investigation.

A combination of Columbia Shuswap Regional District fire departments 香蕉视频直播� Salmon Arm, Tappen, Shuswap and Sunnybrae, as well as Wildfire BC crews, began fighting the fire Sunday morning.

Highway 1 was closed for about an hour around 11 a.m. while planes dropped retardant on the blaze, which was working its way up the steep and rocky terrain below the highway look-out on Kault Hill.

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Otherwise traffic was moving slowly through the area all day, motorists often getting a close-up view of the mastery of pilots香蕉视频直播� skill as they guided their aircraft above the rocky bluff to hit the fire below with water.

A helicopter and four water bombers were working the fire, the fixed-wing aircraft dropping water from Shuswap Lake every three or four minutes.

Just one structure was reported to be under evacuation alert, a house at the highway level.

Witt says reports were received Saturday night of a fire in the same fire zone at White Lake.

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martha.wickett@saobserver.net
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