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Osoyoos, British Columbia

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The Christie Mountain fire has seen "minimal" growth over the weekend, fire officials said Sunday afternoon, as 3,700 properties in Penticton remained on an evacuation alert. More: www.cbc.ca/1.5697250

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Update to the Christie Mountain (K51287) Wildfire: The BC Wildfire Service will be increasing the number of Structural Protection Strike Teams with fire protect...ion apparatus near the Christie Mountain Wildfire, southeast of Penticton, BC. This action is a precautionary measure to mitigate risk to homes in the area ahead of an approaching weather system that may cause challenging fire behaviour. Winds are forecasted to be southerly, 20-40 km/hr, gusting to 70 km/hr. Structural protection teams will be stationed throughout the community starting tomorrow morning to perform assessments and proactively triage infrastructure. For an update on today’s progress please refer to the Wildfires of Note page: http://ow.ly/BI2U50B5cqV, and stay tuned for pictures tomorrow morning showing the current fire activity. We will post them as updates to this post in the comments.