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Initial strike

Aerial view of a fire burning on a hill.

Text credit: Public Report No. 39: the Silver Creek Fire Review

Feature image: Initial strike

Photo credit: Jake Jacobson, c. 1998

 

Day 1: Wed. July 29 

Just after 15:00 a lightning strike hit the Fly Hills and started a blaze.

“If you were going to set a fire, on purpose, in that valley, and you wanted to do the most damage and cause the biggest fire, you would set it right where the lightning hit,” said a Salmon Arm Fire Warden.

Smoke in forested hills.

1. Initial strike!

 

Fire burning in forest hillside.

2. Smoke and ash indicated where the fire was.Photo credit:

Photo credits:

1. Jake Jacobson, c. 1998
2. James Murray, Salmon Arm Observer, c. 1998