{"id":868231,"date":"2026-08-23T06:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T06:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/868231\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T06:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T06:02:11","slug":"update-jacko-lake-wildfire-south-of-kamloops-being-held-at-44-hectares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/868231\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Jacko Lake wildfire south of Kamloops being held at 44 hectares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6dc448a4-8bc1-4444-8743-0f970f5edaa1-2.png\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit: Kent Simmonds \/ CFJC Today)<\/p>\n<p>By Dylana Kneeshaw<\/p>\n<p>KAMLOOPS WILDFIRE<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 22, 2026 | 4:56 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE (8:00 p.m.): The BC Wildfire Service says the new wildfire near Jacko Lake is no longer burning out of the control.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, that\u2019s suspected to be caused by lightning, is classified as being held, meaning it\u2019s projected to remain within its 44-hectare perimeter.<\/p>\n<p>In an update at around 7:00 p.m. Saturday, the wildfire service says the Jacko Lake fire is mostly burning in areas of grassy fuels. It\u2019s showing Rank 1 with pockets of Rank 2 fire behaviour, meaning a smouldering ground fire with a slow rate of spread and a low vigour surface fire, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrews made good progress today and will continue to establish and bolster containment lines,\u201d the wildfire service states. \u201cA Kamloops Fire Rescue crew will be working onsite overnight. Danger tree assessing and falling is ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Image Credit: Kent Simmonds \/ CFJC Today) By Dylana Kneeshaw KAMLOOPS WILDFIRE Aug 22, 2026 | 4:56 PM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-868231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}