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Prescribed burn planned for Levirs Avenue area
As part of the City of Kimberley’s Community Wildfire Management Program, the Kimberley Fire Department and the BC Wildfire Service will be conducting a six-hectares prescribed burn in the Levirs Avenue area, possibly next week.
The prescribed burn will be located at the Burdette Street entrance to the Kimberley Nature Park up to the old gravel pit below Trickle Creek Golf Course.
The objective of this treatment is to reduce the risk of catastrophic fires in the Wildland Urban Interface adjacent to the City of Kimberley.
The project will start in the next couple of weeks and residents are asked to keep their windows closed when the burn is underway as there will be significant smoke created from the burn, the city stated on its website.
The area will be signed as ‘Prescribed Burn’ and the public is asked to stay clear of the area while the work is being completed.
City chief administrative officer Scott Sommerville told e-KNOW the burn should take place next week “but we are waiting for the proper venting conditions.”
Detailed information on the location of the projects can be obtained on the City of Kimberley Website at www.kimberley.ca.
For additional information contact the Fire Department at 250-427-4114.
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