Smoke is seen rising near Mount Manuel Quimper from a small wildfire on July 4.
Fire crews in Sooke were fighting a wildfire in the Sea to Sea Regional Park Tuesday afternoon.
The blaze began around 1 p.m. just east of Sooke on Harbour View Road in the Sea to Sea Regional Park.
Smoke could be seen in the Mount Manuel Quimper area, in between Sooke and Saseenos.
The Sooke Fire Rescue Service are working to contain the fire on the ground.
The B.C. Wildfire Service has been notified and B.C. Forestry Services helicopters are using buckets to drop water on the fire.
Air tanker support was also brought in on Tuesday evening.
The fire is now estimated to be just one hectare in size but officials say the terrain is making the task more difficult.
It is reported to have been human caused but it is not threatening any structures.
The B.C. Wildfire Service says the fire hazard is now listed as “high.”
According to the Coast Fire Centre, there are a total of 39 wildfires in the coastal region to date, all of them human caused.
Posted by Susan Burritt on Tuesday, July 4, 2017
A helicopter drops buckets of water on a small wildfire in Sooke on July 4.
Smoke is seen rising from Sea to Sea Regional Park near Mount Maneul Quimper on July 4. Credit: discoversooke/Twitter
Smoke is seen rising from a wildfire in Sooke on July 4. Credit: Gregory Barz
Smoke seen from a wildfire in Sooke on July 4. Credit: Justin Kim
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