It was a week ago today when the Peachland Fire Department jumped into action after a lightning strike sparked a wildfire above the hills of the Okanagan community.
Fire Chief Dennis Craig and his crew were first on scene as the fire began to grow.
"The fire was still, at that point, out of reach of us. It was still in rocky, steep terrain far up on the hillside. It was evident that it was moving down slope and it was moving south. It was at that point that we started looking at how we are going to protect life and how are we going to protect property".
Craig says they used a structural protection unit, purchased in 2012, to save property near the blaze.
"It is a little tiny trailer filled with hoses, sprinkler systems, pumps and bladders. We go into properties and set up around the property on sprinkler systems and what it does is it creates a humidity bubble around the property. It raises the humidity level and reduces the temperature that forces the fire to bend around the property from the encroaching wildfire."
The Peachland Fire Department's primary role seven days later is extinguishing hot spots while making sure the blaze doesn't escape across the highway.