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New small wildfires burning in West Kootenay-Boundary

Ten wildfires have started in the West Kootenay-Boundary since Wednesday.

The biggest is covering 20 hectares near fife creek north of Faquier.

That one is believed to have been human-caused.

Crews are still battling the wildfire along Highway 33 which was caused by a motor vehicle accident.

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That’s at one hectare.

There’s a lightning caused fire burning at 0.1 hectare at West Kokanee Creek between Nelson and Balfour.

Crews are also battling a 0.009 hectare blaze north of Castlegar at Robson Ridge as well a 0.009 hectare fire at Blizzard Mountain southeast of Trail.

The rest are scattered east of Lower Arrow Lake and there’s two burning to the north and northeast of Yahk.

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