A small fire that sparked along Highway 23 near Shelter Bay and south of Revelstoke is now under control, BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) reports.
The wildfire, located in the Southeast Fire Centre's Columbia Fire Zone and smaller than a tennis court at 0.009 hectares, was identified Wednesday morning, July 9, a little more than five kilometres north of the ferry terminal.
BCWS is attributing the fire as likely human-caused, amid rainy conditions Wednesday around Revelstoke and Upper Arrow Lake, and indicated that a suppression response was already in place Wednesday morning.
This particular wildfire, a few kilometres south along the highway from Cranberry Creek, isn't the first to happen around Shelter Bay this summer, and was controlled by crews as of noon Wednesday.
Find the latest updates at wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/map.
