Neighbours of a rural Lumby property where a brush fire ignited Friday morning are being commended for preventing the flames from getting out of hand amid dry conditions.
The fire started in a pump house in the area of Headgates Road around 9:30 a.m. Aug. 1, according to Lumby Fire Chief Tony Clayton.
The fire spread from the pump house into nearby wildlands and had the potential to spread much further into the woods, had people in the area not noticed it and stepped in.
"Fortunately enough the neighbours got together and got on it right away with shovels and buckets of water until we got there, which really kind of kept it at bay," Clayton said.
The fire chief said the cause of the fire isn't yet definitively known, but it's not considered suspicious.
The fire was no longer spreading once the Lumby Fire Department arrived, and the department only needed to deploy its bush truck to take care of the remaining flames.
BC Wildfire attended the area with a helicopter, "but it wasn't needed," Clayton said.
