Kamloops Fire Rescue spending the overnight hours into Sunday knocking down any hot spots and taking care of any so-called danger trees, following a blaze south of Kamloops which caught hold on Saturday afternoon.

The BC Wildfire Service now has the fast-moving, mostly grass fire southwest of Aberdeen as ‘being held.’

The Jacko Lake fire would grow to about 44 hectares in size through Saturday afternoon before crews would eventually get it to the ‘being held’ position in the early evening.

Called in sometime around 12:30pm Saturday, the BC Wildfire Service would lead the attack, eventually sending in six separate water bombers on a full sortie against the mostly grassland wildfire.

The fire appears to have caught hold next to the former Ajax Mine due to a lightening strike which hit as part of an early-afternoon storm system which rolled across the Kamloops region at the time.

The elevated winds from that storm would whip the fire north toward Kamloops comparatively quickly, with the blaze pushing toward the hillside separating the southern City Limits and the downslope housing developments in Aberdeen.

The fire would eventually make it across the dividing line between the Thompson Nicola Regional District and the City of Kamloops.

Indications are the fire was close to ‘being held’ when the flames started travelling across the invisible border, saving KFR, the TNRD and BC Wildfire from having to sort out any jurisdictional coordination.

BC Wildfire is reporting Kamloops Fire Rescue spent the overnight hours ensuring there are no hotspots or flare ups, and also dealing with any fallen trees which could end up re-igniting a fire.

Overnight showers in the Kamloops area likely helped quash any likelihood of the Jacko Lake blaze from making a resurgence on Sunday.