With cooler and more humid weather, and some rain, Kamloops has stood down its emergency operations centre for the the time being.

That’s after an evacuation alert was lifted today for Pineview and Iron Mask, which was the second evacuation alert this month in Kamloops.

In an update to mayor and council, city manager David Trawin said Kamloops Fire Rescue and the BC Wildfire Service are continuing to assess the wildfire risk for the city.

“The (Tremont Creek) fire, the White Rock Lake fire and Sparks Lake fire are still our concerns… But they’re no longer an immediate threat to Kamloops,” Trawin said. We’ll be monitoring them. Wildfire season is still three, four weeks long, from this point here. So we’re not totally out of the woods yet. But for the next few days we are definitely not under threat.”

Trawin said that about 3,000 evacuees from more than 50 communities were staying in Kamloops, as of this afternoon.

“The reception centre is very busy but functioning very well. A lot of it’s due to recruitment efforts, where we did train 150 new volunteers. And many thanks to the volunteers of Kamloops for doing that.”

Trawin also thanked firefighters who have come to Kamloops and brought equipment here, who he said will be departing “shortly” to their home communities or to assist in other parts of the province. Those include fire crews from the North Cedar Improvement District near Nanaimo, Willis Point near Victoria, Salt Spring Island, Delta, Burns Lake, Hinton and Lac La Biche.

“So we have some smaller areas which really dug deep to send fire crews and equipment to help out the City of Kamloops if need be.”

Trawin also says the floor will be removed at the Sandman Centre and ice will be installed soon, as it had been available to potentially have cots set up. He says cots will still be available in other places as requested by ESS.