City of Vernon to implement fire ban on Wednesday

The North Okanagan is getting a two-day jump connected nan province’s upcoming campfire ban for nan Southern Interior.

On Tuesday, nan City of Vernon announced that it will prohibit each fires connected Wednesday, July 10, astatine noon.

That news comes 24 hours aft nan BC Wildfire Service said connected Monday that it will beryllium implementing its annual campfire ban for nan Kamloops Fire Centre connected Friday, July 12, astatine noon.

Vernon’s ban, for illustration nan provincial order, will beryllium successful effect until Oct. 11, unless it’s rescinded earlier.

Notably, nan campfire prohibition does not use to CSA-rated aliases ULC-rated cooking stoves that usage gas, propane aliases briquettes.

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The City of Vernon says nan section occurrence threat standing is high, and that “the prohibition is intended to thief forestall human-caused wildfires and protect nationalist safety.”

The metropolis says non-compliance could consequence successful a good of up to $1,000, and added that “if nan contravention causes aliases contributes to a wildfire, nan personification responsible whitethorn beryllium ordered to salary each firefighting and associated costs.”

In nan Central Okanagan, nan City of Kelowna has a year-round prohibition connected campfires and outdoor wood-burning appliances, specified arsenic occurrence pits and wood stoves.