Firefighters tackle more Kamloops grassfires
Wednesday morning rain is a welcome reprieve as Kamloops firefighters extinguished two grassfires within hours of each other a day earlier. On July 8, a West End park went up in flames for the second time in less than two weeks. What caused the afternoon Strathcona Park fire, nor...
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Wednesday morning rain is a welcome reprieve as Kamloops firefighters extinguished two grassfires within hours of each other a day earlier.
On July 8, a West End park went up in flames for the second time in less than two weeks.
What caused the afternoon Strathcona Park fire, nor the four other recent fires, isn't known, but photos posted to social media Tuesday suggest a man was seen leaving the scene just as it started.
iNFOnews.ca hasn't been able to reach the person who posted the photos and Kamloops RCMP have not responded to verify the claim. Neither Kamloops RCMP nor Kamloops Fire Rescue have responded to requests for comment on Wednesday morning.
The fire was knocked down quickly, but firefighters responded to a riverside fire in the Dallas neighbourhood later the same day
https://cfjctoday.com/2025/07/08/kamloops-firefighters-tackle-grassfire-along-river-bank-in-dallas/
, several kilometres away from the downtown park.
The two blazes follow three others. The last Strathcona Park fire was June 27, while a Rose Hill area fire lit up July 6 and another at Peterson Creek approached Royal Inland Hospital before it was knocked down June 26.
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