Forest fire in balloons east of Kamloops at 200 hectares

Fire crews are currently responding to a forest fire on the east side of Kamloops

. According to the Forest Fire Service, 49 firefighters, city planes, a helicopter and firefighters intervene on Shuswap Road.

The fire had swelled from 20 to 200 hectares Thursday afternoon

Kamloops Fire Rescue is also on the scene, and said that as a precaution, half a dozen houses on Shuswap Road at the same time. is Sage Meadows trailer park was evacuated.

Residents who live in Tk's reserve emlups were notified by e-mail and placed under the evacuation alert.

Michael Mehta, a professor of environmental studies at the l. Thompson Rivers University said that the smoke from the fire already has an impact on the air quality of the city.

He told Global News that his instructors were starting to show high levels of air pollution around 2 pm

"They are considerably higher than north of Kamloops." "They are south from Kamloops because of the direction of the wind, and that's how the smoke moves but it can change, "he said. [19659025]" We saw last year with the Forest fires that the movements will change quite frequently throughout the day and then in the evening and that the pollution will split up differently. "

Mehta said that as a precaution, people should stay in the lodge. interior and use air conditioning

There was no structure immediately threatened Thursday afternoon but the wind was pushing

The light is visible from Highway 1.

The RCMP closed East Shuswap Road