The BC Wildfire Service was called out for a pair of person-caused fires on the Sunshine Coast May 17.
The first was in the Dakota Ridge area.
Mark Rogers, vice president of Surespan, told Coast Reporter the fire was discovered by one of their crews working on property owned by AJB Investments. He said it looked like an abandoned cooking fire that had started to spread.
Surespan crews tackled the fire and alerted the Wildfire Service. It grew to 0.1 hectare (0.25 acre) before being extinguished, and Coastal Fire Centre information officer Marg Drysdale said they will keep patrolling for flare-ups in the coming days. She also said although it is listed as person-caused, the exact cause is under investigation.
The second fire was up Princess Louisa Inlet. Drysdale said it was a fire at a remote home that spread into the forest, eventually burning through one hectare. The building was up the inlet from Malibu, the site of a camp run by the group Young Life. According to staff at the camp, they were not impacted by the blaze.
Drysdale says Coastal Fire Centre crews were back at the site May 18, and expected to be able to downgrade the fire’s status to “patrol” by Thursday.
