Drones are helping map hot spots in a wildfire blazing on the fringes of British Columbia’s Okanagan region, as cooler and calmer conditions help firefighters bring blazes elsewhere under control.
Crews are making progress on several wildfires, including a blaze near Lytton that broke out nearly a month ago and destroyed several properties, and which is no longer being designated a wildfire of note.
But BC Wildfire Service information officer Mikhail Elsay told a news conference that the large fire about 21 kilometres southwest of Penticton in the Okanagan is still out of control, having scorched more than 68 square kilometres.
Elsay says new drone technology is being used to scan the fire’s edges to make sure flames are put out….