The Transportation Safety Board says it has “not identified any links” between rail companies and the deadly fire in the Village of Lytton that started on June 30.

The fire burned down an estimated 90 per cent of the village and killed two people, and went on to burn dozens more structures and cover more than 83,000 hectares. Most Lytton residents remain evacuated, now more than 100 days after the fire.

The TSB had sent investigators to Lytton barely a week after the fire started, after it had received information from RCMP and the BC Wildfire Service potentially linking train activity to the cause of the fire.

In its report released at 10 a.m. this morning, the TSB says there is no evidence to tie either CN Rail or CP Rail to starting the fire.

The blaze is believed to be human-caused, and the wildfire service and RCMP are continuing with their own investigations.

The investigator-in-charge with the TSB, James Carmichael, will be taking questions about today’s report from journalists at 11 a.m. The full report released this morning can be found here.

More to come.