Another bad air-quality day is taking place in Kamloops due to the Ross Moore Lake fire.

The overnight air quality hitting level 9 on Environment Canada’s 10-plus scale.

While the smoke will ease through the mid-day, it is expected get worse again as the afternoon and evening rolls forward.

Carley Desrosiers with the BC Wildfire Service says the increased smoke is from the northwest flank of the Ross Moore Lake fire.

“In areas where there’s pretty dense timber, and then also in cut-blocks where there’s a lot of down and dead fuel available to burn,” notes Desrosiers.  “Certainly producing a lot more smoke than we’ve seen the past couple of days. We’ll continue to likely to be pretty smokey in the Kamloops area for a while.”

While generating a lot more smoke, the fire has not breached the existing guards.

18 properties within the fire zone are still under evacuation orders, while around 300 others remain on alert.

BC Wildfire pulls resources from fire burning near Adams Lake

The BC Wildfire Service has decided to move out some of its structural protection crews working the Lower East Adams Lake fire to help bolster the fire fight in Osoyoos.

This is due to the diminished risk for the roughly 100-properties currently under an evacuation alert to the south of the Adams Lake fire.

Carley Desrosiers with the Wildfire Service says the Lower East Adams Lake fire is mostly burning northward, away from those properties.

“We have seen the growth, primarily on that upslope of the Lake, kind of across from Agate Bay,” notes Desrosiers.  “We haven’t seen any real notable growth southwards to the community of Adams Lake.”

The Columbia Shuswap Regional District says its own structural protection crews will remain on standby on the East Adams Lake fire.

Meanwhile, the fire on the opposite side of the lake, south of Sun Peaks, is continuing to burn away from properties.

The Bush Creek East fire is mostly burning toward the east, away from the dozen homes which are under an evacuation alert there.